Here's a bullet-point recap, because I didn't count on the White Sox playing their longest game of the year when I agreed to pick up a shift teaching curling tonight.
*The White Sox lost their only lead in regulation on three pitches, so they decided to avoid taking their next lead until it was impossible to relinquish. They pulled it off in the 10th inning, taking advantage of Baltimore's decision to play for one run in the top of the inning by scoring twice, and they didn't even need an out.
*Yasmani Grandal tied it by dropping a double inside the left-field line on Logan Gillaspie's first pitch. Seby Zavala pinch-ran for Grandal, moved to third on Jake Burger's bullet single to left, then scored on Oscar Colás walk-off single over the head of Anthony Santander in right field.
*Burger had the game's biggest hit before then, blistering a two-run shot off Kyle Gibson that tied the game at 4 in the sixth. Gibson's command had started failing him late in his start, resulting in his only two walks, and both came around to score. Burger's homer scored Eloy Jiménez, and Andrew Benintendi's double knocked in Elvis Andrus, who drew the White Sox's first walk in the fifth inning.
*Burger went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, Yasmani Grandal had two doubles and a single, and Elvis Andrus reached base four times on two singles and two walks.
*White Sox pitchers issued 10 walks and hit another batter in the head. Two of those walks were with the bases loaded. Aaron Bummer issued a walk to Cedric Mullins for the third Baltimore run of the sixth inning and a 4-2 Orioles lead, and Kendall Graveman walked Ryan O'Hearn to give the lead back to Baltimore in the seventh.
*Graveman retired the first two batters of the seventh before giving up a triple, a walk, a beanball that knocked Roman Urias out of the game, and another walk, giving him the most disappointing relief appearance of the bunch.
*Tanner Banks walked the first batter he faced in his first appearance of the season to start the eighth, but he erased him with the second of two Adley Rutschman double plays.
*Reynaldo López forced the Orioles to hit him into trouble, and they tried with a pair of singles to open the ninth. But he struck out Adam Frazier and Terrin Vavra around a Gunnar Henderson flyout to keep them both from advancing.
*Michael Kopech allowed three runs over five-plus innings, but it could've been worse considering all the traffic (six hits, four walks). He also allowed two homers, but both were solo shots.
*Eloy Jiménez swung on a pitch that hit him in the hand. It required a trainer visit, but then he flied out to the warning track with his next swing, so hopefully it was more insult than injury.
*Jorge Mateo was cut down at second by Grandal with Kopech on the mound, which is unlikely enough, but it's possible that it's the first CS in baseball after two disengagements, which makes it seem impossible.
*Lenyn Sosa went 1-for-4 with a double and a couple of double-play turns, so keep giving him starts. The Sox had four double plays on the day, which helped contain the damage.
*The Orioles beat themselves plenty, committing three errors and going 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position. The White Sox had their own missed opportunties, but they still managed to 3-for-12 with a sac fly.
*The game wrapped up in 3 hours and 21 minutes, when it might've pushed five without the new rules.
