I intended to be home in time for the fourth inning, during which I would catch up on the first three innings with one screen while having another screen open to watch the proceedings live.
Bad weather kept me out until the eighth inning, and by that time there was no point in trying to make sense of anything that unfurled in the box score while I was waiting it out.
All these things happened:
*Seby Zavala, a day after striking three times and flinging his bat into foul territory on two of them, homered in his first three at-bats, one of which was a grand slam. He then singled in his final at-bat for a 4-for-4, four-run, six-RBI night.
*Zavala's grand slam in the fourth inning gave Dallas Keuchel a 6-1 lead entering the fifth. He gave up back-to-back homers to Owen Miller and Austin Hedges that inning, and Franmil Reyes chased him from the game with an RBI double one out into the sixth that made it a 6-4 game.
*Michael Kopech started his night with a groundout, then failed to retire four straight batters before getting the third out. He yielded a double, a walk, a game-tying single, and a go-ahead triple. Brian Goodwin probably should've caught it with his leap in front of the right-field wall, but it clanked off the heel of his glove and he had difficulty locating it afterward.
*Cleveland never trailed from there, though not for a lack of trying from the White Sox offense. Kopech gave up two more hits to start the seventh, and both came around to score on Ryan Tepera's watch, as he yielded another costly hit to the first batter he faced. This was a two-run double that gave the Future Guardians a 10-6 lead.
*The Sox narrowed the game to 10-8 in the bottom of the seventh, but couldn't get it any closer despite a screaming line drive from Gavin Sheets and a deep flyout from Yoán Moncada. When José Ruiz gave up two in the top of the eighth, the Sox answered with three off James Karinchak, including a two-run homer from Adam Engel. Sheets grounded into an inning-ending double play, and Emmanuel Clase also closed out the ninth.
*Craig Kimbrel threw a 1-2-3 ninth with a strikeout in his White Sox debut, so there's that.
Feel free to add any details I missed as I review the game in its entirety.
