The White Sox were facing elimination, having lost both games in Houston in the best-of-five series, but showed their mettle in coming from behind to take this one. The series will now go at least four games with the Astros leading the series, two games to one. Through the first 20 innings of the series, the White Sox had 20 hits.
That's actually a pretty good rate, but there was a problem. Every single hit was a single. Not only were they down in the series, but heading to the bottom of the third in this game, they were losing to the Astros. Two big home runs paved to the way for the breakout inning. With a runner on first and one out, Yasmani Grandal hit a home run to make the deficit look workable at Diversify that offense and add homers to the singles.
That's a five-run inning to salvage the season. Of course, it wasn't over as the Astros would nearly immediately tie the game in the top of the fourth. In the bottom, though Three fortunately-placed singles there was a weak infield single, a weak flare and a mph grounder that found a hole gave the White Sox the lead back before the funkiness really got started.
Grandal hit a grounder to first base and, knowing the throw was coming home, immediately took a path in the way of the throw. He would get hit with the throw, aiding the run to score Luis Robert accidentally took out home-plate umpire Tom Hallion on his slide, too.
That made it Tim Anderson got his first RBI of the series to make it Speaking of Anderson, that is now five three-hit games in six career playoff games to this point.
In all, the White Sox pounded out 16 hits. The pressure was put on both bullpens early in the game, as neither starting pitcher was effective. The lines:. The quick hooks made sense. San Francisco Giants. Seattle Mariners. Louis Cardinals. Tampa Bay Rays. Texas Rangers. Toronto Blue Jays. Washington Nationals. Gavin Sheets emerged, even as the White Sox season faded away: 'He knows his strengths' With the help of White Sox veterans, Gavin Sheets had an impressive breakout in Impact Marshall went down with the elbow issue in late June and was eventually diagnosed with a UCL injury, though he first attempted a rest and rehab program.
The right-hander will miss the entirety of the season while recovering from the procedure. The surgery will be performed by Dr. James Andrews. This w Impact Duber adds that Craig Kimbrel might not return in , so Kopech could also serve as the team's top setup option in front of closer Liam Hendriks.
However, it appears that the organization wants to see Kopech in the rotation, which would seemingly increase his fantasy value if he finds success as a starter. The year-old would likely have a capped workload, though, after tossing just Cubbies Crib Weblog Oct White Sox offseason: 5 questions facing Rick Hahn's front office Yahoo! For Astros, it's H-Town vs. Pierzynski The Ringer Oct Larry Brown Sports Oct Relevance is automatically assessed so some headlines not qualifying as Chicago White Sox news might appear - please feel free to contact us regarding any persistent issues.
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