I went to watch Mizzou improve to 5-0 against Vanderbilt this afternoon, although I spent most of my time there fascinated by this incredible scoreboard setup.
Anyway, by the time I got home, the White Sox were trailing 6-0 and Mike Clevinger was out of the game. So I took my time to getting around to how the Sox lost their 100th game of the season. They'll shoot for their first 101-loss season since 1970. I'll be rooting for/against them.
Bullet-point recap:
*Mike Clevinger got Xander Bogaerts to check-swing his way into a 3-1 groundout to start the game. By the time he recorded his next out, the Padres led 4-0. Clevinger, who hadn't walked a batter over 32 innings in April, walked a pair of batters to load the bases. Jurickson Profar unloaded them with a double into the right-field corner that Gavin Sheets couldn't corral, and then Ji Man Choi slashed a double to the left-center gap to score a fourth.
*Clevinger wasn't much better in the second inning. He started the inning with a backward K, but then Bogaerts reached on a hot shot that Andrew Vaughn blocked but couldn't control in time, Ha-Seong Kim served a single to right, and Juan Soto wedged a double into the base of the right-field wall for an RBI double.
*Yasmani Grandal prevented one run when he gloved Tim Anderson's terrible one-hop throw home on a contact play, then absorbed a blow from Kim, who couldn't slide because Fernando Tatis Jr.'s bat spun back into the baseline. Profar made it moot when he lined a single to two-out single to right to score Soto, making it 6-0.
*Tanner Banks then took over and struck out Choi, starting another successful night for the bullpen. Banks got the game through four, Sammy Peralta and Luis Patiño combined for 12 outs between them, and Bryan Shaw pitched a scoreless inning because he's contractually obligated to appear no matter what.
*The White Sox offense had nothing for Michael Wacha, who limited the Sox to three singles and a walk over seven innings, throwing 60 of 87 pitches for strikes.
*Yoán Moncada had one of the few professional nights. He singled his first time up, drew the only walk in his second trip, and lined out hard to right in the sixth inning, which was the first for the White Sox with runners in scoring position. Alas, Eloy Jiménez popped out and Andrew Vaughn flied out, so that gave the Sox an 0-for-3 start toward their 0-for-5 finish with runners in scoring position.
*Lenyn Sosa had the only multi-hit night, and produced the only run with a classic Guaranteed Rate Field opposite-field solo shot in the eighth inning.
*Grandal went 0-for-2 in what's likely his last game with the White Sox, but he'll always have that play at home.
