It was a beautiful evening here in Nashville, and I finally had the opportunity to get out of the house and enjoy one, so I took in some Triple-A baseball between the Sounds and the Gwinnett Stripers. As I tracked the White Sox-Royals game on my phone, it became apparent early that I didn't miss much.
Here's the bullet-point recap. As always, fill in any details I may have missed.
*Lance Lynn immediately fell behind 4-0, although half the runs scored after Elvis Andrus couldn't flag down Matt Duffy's high pop fly in front of Gavin Sheets in shallow right field, but Lynn made mistakes in the middle of the zone before and after his defense let him down, so it's hard to say the runs weren't earned.
*The White Sox missed their best opportunities to make a ballgame of it in the first two innings. Tim Anderson and Andrew Benintendi drew walks against Brad Keller to start the evening, but Andrew Vaughn chopped a high slider into a double play, and Luis Robert struck out for the first of four times.
*In the second, Hanser Alberto cashed in a runner in scoring position with his single through the left side, and the Sox had runners on first and second with still nobody out. Seby Zavala struck out, Elvis Andrus grounded into a fielder's choice and Anderson lined out, and the Sox never really threatened again.
*The Sox went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position, but 1-for-6 in those first two innings.
*Lynn endured a 37-pitch first inning to last five, but he gave up a pair of homers in his last two innings. Michael Massey took him deep for a solo shot in the fourth, and Nick Pratto followed suit with a two-run shot in the fifth. He's now 1-5 with a 7.51 ERA.
*Nick Padilla made his White Sox debut and offered two innings, but he gave up a run in each innig, including a solo shot to Edward Olivares that found water.
*Robert made a diving catch on Nate Eaton, and Elvis Andrus made a nice stab on a hot shot. Eaton is now 1-for-35 on the season, although Lynn did grant him his first walk of the year in that miserable first inning.
*Sheets couldn't stop a ball around Kauffman Stadium's rounded right field corner. Pair it with his inability to close the distance on Duffy's first-inning fly, and that's more fodder for the "not a right fielder" brigade.
Record: 13-25 | Box score | Statcast
