Bullet-point recap:
*Tim Anderson finally hit his first homer of the season. His first-inning no-doubter off Logan Allen snapped a drought that dated back to July 16, 2022, and kicked off a three-hit night at the top of the order.
*Mike Clevinger pitched five shutout innings in return from the injured list. He only struck out three, but that still outnumbered the total in the hit column (two).
*Zach Remillard erased two hits with one play in the first inning, making a diving catch on José Ramírez's fly to left field, then returning the ball back to the infield fast enough to double off Steven Kwan, with Jake Burger relaying the ball to first.
*Kwan might've been safe, but the umpire crew said Terry Francona didn't get his challenge request in early enough, and Francona was ejected after protest.
*The Sox played fantastic defense all night. Burger made his best play at second base yet with a slick pick on a hot shot, and Yoán Moncada made a tremendous cross-body, cross-diamond throw on a play to his right. They also turned two other double plays.
*The White Sox offense eventually found a way to tack on runs against Allen. Moncada came through with the bases loaded in the fifth by muscling a line-drive single to center, Andrew Vaughn hit a two-run shot in the sixth, and Luis Robert Jr. and Eloy Jiménez delivered run-scoring hits in the seventh.
*Eddie Rodriguez made an unwise decision to send Moncada from first on a double off the base of the left-center wall by Robert. With two outs, it would've been fine. With zero outs, it was unnecessarily aggressive.
*The White Sox outhit the Guardians 12-9, and outwalked them 6-0.
*Jesse Scholtens posted a zero in the sixth for the only scoreless relief outing. Keynan Middleton gave up three consecutive two-out hits in the seventh, and Bryan Shaw traded a run for a double play in the ninth, his second inning of work.
*The Guardians can use this as a microcosm of their season. Just when it looks like they can go on a run to get comfortably over .500, they instead lose two in a row to a team that traded five pitches.
