The White Sox heard your complaints about scoring in only one inning, and resolved it by scoring in zero innings.
José Berríos entered this game with a 6.23 ERA, and he leaves it with a 4.71 ERA after throwing seven shutout innings. He allowed just four singles and a walk while striking out nine, and the White Sox only had two at-bats with runners in scoring position all night.
Meanwhile, Mike Clevinger's path down the Mat Latos Timeline continued apace. Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer from the eighth spot in the second inning (he'd add a second homer later off Tanner Banks), and Kevin Kiermaier's two-run triple two innings later officially kicked the game out of reach.
Clevinger at least sopped up five innings, but he allowed 10 baserunners and generated only eight whiffs over 100 pitches, so the stuff problem remains.
But it's unfair to single him out, because the White Sox have so many other problems, and one of them spilled into the dugout. Luis Robert Jr. twice cut in front of Eloy Jiménez on fly balls that Jiménez called for/camped under, and Jiménez took his frustration to the telestrator after the second occurrence.
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After the game, Elvis Andrus was seen mediating a discussion between the two. The White Sox issued a bobblehead of Robert catching a ball in front of a miffed Jiménez last year, but like so many other developments of the past few years, it's not as funny anymore.
Robert and Jiménez both went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, so nobody held an edge when it came to contributions elsewhere on the field.
Bullet points:
*Romy González went 0-for-3 with a strikeout to drop to .103/.103/.103 on the season, even though he twice got to three-ball counts.
*Yasmani Grandal was replaced by Seby Zavala after Grandal appeared to tweak his back on a checked-swing attempt in the top of the seventh.
*Banks shook off the Jansen homer to throw the final three innings, so he served the classic long man purpose.
*The White Sox are now 0-7-1 in series this season, and now they'll hope to avoid a second consecutive sweep and a seventh consecutive loss Wednesday afternoon.
