Not only have the White Sox suffered a pair of 10-2 losses to the Twins, but they more or less followed the same path to a blowout los
The runs came a little earlier tonight compared to the night before, because Jesse Scholtens made the mistake of loading the bases for Royce Lewis, who hit his fifth grand slam in just his 66th career game. That gave the Twins a 4-0 lead after two, and they never looked back.
Otherwise, the shape of the game was more or less the same. The Sox waited until they were down 6-0 to score their runs. Once again, they both came on a two-run homer, only it was Elvis Andrus instead of Andrew Vaughn this time.
Once again, the Twins reached double digits with a four-run ninth, with Michael Kopech suffering the misfortune this time around. He opened the inning with a three-pitch strikeout of Lewis, then gave up four straight hits for two runs, and a fifth with two outs that scored two more.
Kopech didn't walk a batter, but he probably wasn't in the mood for silver lining.
What else was the same? The only once again drew a single, solitary walk, with Carlos Pérez coming off the bench to watch Kody Funderburk miss with four straight to lead off the ninth inning.
Oh, and Bryan Shaw pitched once again. After pitching two-thirds of an inning on Thursday, he delivered two scoreless innings across the seventh and eighth to keep it respectable, at least until Kopech couldn't. Tanner Banks preceded Shaw with a pair of zeroes himself, but Scholtens dug too deep a hole for this particular offense to help. T
Bullet points:
*The White Sox were 0-for-1 with runners in scoring position, while the Twins went 6-for-13.
*Yoán Moncada cut down Willi Castro at home plate to save a run in the second, but Lewis' slam made it moot.
*Tim Anderson added an unearned run to Scholtens' tab when his glove ejected Carlos Correa's one-out grounder in the third, then overran Matt Wallner's pop-up down the left-field line, which dropped for an RBI single.
