Nine walks not enough, because white SOX falls to Padres, 3-2

John Schriffen and Steve Stone spent what looked like 98% of their TV broadcast on the big last home game Jackpot instead of the game itself, which was probably a good idea, given the game of the team that uses them.

Let’s venture through the most important innings of offense:

The first: Chase girl was hit by a throw, Kyle Teel Walk on four throws that were not close by, Colson Montgomery K, Miguel Vargas 5-4-3 DP. Note the pattern of two on, none out, no progress, let alone that they are being performed. The memory will come in handy.

The second, 2-0 for partly down due to a pickoff attempt sent to the right field: Edgar Quero Single (who would turn out to be the only SOX base that is harder than 86 mph), Brooks Baldwin Walk on five throws, Lenyn Sosa K, Will Robertson Pop-up, Dominic Fletcher Routine Fly Out. Get the photo?

The sixth, Down 3-0, Fernando Tatis Jr. After he made it 3-0 on an explosion of 432 feet, the 150th of his career: Montgomery Single, Vargas Single, Quero Walk on Four Pitches, Curtis Mead PH K, Sosa Pop-Up, Michael A. Taylor PH K. Yes to just be different, the sixth contained the bases loaded without outs before he blows it.

The seventh, 3-0: Fletcher Soft Double, girl Walk on four throws, Teel K, Montgomery Walk on five throws, Vargas Walk on six throws – finally ride in a run, albeit in a weak way – Quero K (had a bad call that Ball Four should have been), Andrew Benintendi P Walk RBI – see? Coupling Walk Offense !!! – SOSA Ground out.

That made it 3-2, and there it remained because the mostly good but today the horrid Padres-pen only the rest of the road succeeded. All in all, the SOX got 10 Freebies – nine walks and one HBP – and not one of the walks was actually earned by polluting a forest, performing a trained eye for the battle zone, or the like.

In the event that you do not count, the White Sox 0-out-11 with runners were in a score position and left 11 on the base. There is no offensive highlight to show, because you probably don’t want to see that runs came in, but there was a nice defensive moment when normal catcher Korey Lee, for the first time the outfield played since seven innings in the minors in 2022 and wearing Luis Robert Jr. Glove got his first chance at a flying ball:

Lee’s second chance did not go so well when he dropped a routine pop-up, but he made up for that with a line drive on the plate to keep the runner in third place to even try to score. Of course the SOX was the SOX, the runner was in third place because Jordan Lasure never took the trouble to keep him in second place.

On the pitching side, Starter Sean Burke all allowed the runs, two earned and the third because of his own fault, on six hits in four innings, with four strikeouts and no walks. The bullpen was excellent, so four hits and only one walk in five innings were allowed while they wrap seven.

The loss at the last match with the speed for 2025 runs the SOX record to 58-98, which means that they have to win five of their last six games to prevent a third consecutive season of 100 or more losses-no easy task given that they have three games in Yankee Stadium against a team in the Dik of a Divisierace on Tuesday.