Down to their last out, the White Sox put their foot down and decided they were not going to lose this game 14-1.
Oscar Colás rifled a double to the left-center gap on a 1-1 pitch from Darren McCaughan, then came around to score when Josh Rojas fielded Lenyn Sosa's grounder and bounced his cross-diamond throw past first baseman Ty France, ensuring that the White Sox would only lose this game 14-2.
Touki Toussaint walked four batters and gave up five runs before the White Sox even came to the plate, and while the Sox were able to at least provide an immediate answer in the form of doubles by Elvis Andrus and Eloy Jiménez, Luis Castillo kept their bats in check the rest of the night.
Toussaint, for his part, settled down after the 42-pitch first inning to throw just 49 over the next three, but the Mariners wouldn't allow him to leave on a high note. Cal Raleigh and Teoscar Hernandez opened the fifth by going back-to-back, and that's when Tanner Banks came in.
Just like in Colorado, every White Sox pitcher who entered this game was scored upon. Luis Robert Jr. saved Banks a run with a leaping catch at the wall to end the fourth, but Hernandez hit a bases-loaded single with two outs in the fifth to put a couple runs on Banks' tab.
Brent Honeywell gave up a second homer to Raleigh in the eighth -- this one a three-run shot -- and a homer to Dominic Canzone two batters later. Lane Ramsey almost made it out of the ninth unscathed, but gave up a two-out RBI single to Jose Caballero.
On the other side, Castillo recovered from Jiménez's RBI double in the first inning to retire the next 15 batters in order, and he didn't even have to think about it.
Luis Castillo just threw 47 Consecutive Fastballs. 😂 pic.twitter.com/LOv4sD2QuJ
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) August 22, 2023
Bullet points:
*Yasmani Grandal threw through with runners on the corners in the first inning, but his throw skipped past Elvis Andrus, and Raleigh came home after all.
*Colás was charged with an error when he once again failed to look a ball into his glove as he charged it, giving up an extra 90 feet.
*The White Sox struck out 14 times against one walk. Mariners hitters drew five walks against just eight K's.
*The Mariners have won 20 of 25.
