April 2 (Game 6): Welington Castillo & the TOOTBLANs
White Sox (2-3) @ Blue Jays (1-3)
Reynaldo Lopez v Jaime Garcia
"My two bombs today weren't enough because you guys suck at baserunning"
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TOOTBLAN - noun, stands for Thrown Out On The Bases Like A Nincompoop. Coined by Cubs blogger Jimmy Greenfield in 2008. Basically means any non-force-out on the basepaths. Commonly sighted at Guaranteed Rate Field.
In the first weird-ass road series of 20MM, the White Sox leave Cleveland after one game to travel north and visit the Blue Jays. This was a winnable game, too. Lopez, making his second start in 3 days, was very good, giving up 2 hits in 6 innings while K'ing 6 and walking 2. Meanwhile, the White Sox ran themselves out of two run-scoring opportunities.
In the 3rd, Yolmer Sanchez (note: I'm really tired of writing about his blunders and wish he would stop making them and go back to being a fun player to root for) stole second, advanced to 3rd on a bad Russell Martin throw to 2nd, and then got himself into a rundown between 3rd and home on an Adam Engel grounder...to the 3rd baseman. It looked like he was doing that thing where a baserunner will sacrifice themselves to give a runner a chance to score. Unfortunately, Yolmer was the lead (and only) baserunner, and succeeded only in moving the White Sox from having a runner on 3rd with 1 out to having a runner on 1st with 2 out. TOOTBLAN. With 1 out in the 6th, Jose Abreu tried to advance from 1st to 2nd on a flyball to Curtis Granderson. Which would be risky for someone fast, much less Jose Abreu. Needless to say, Granderson guns down Abreu and the inning ends. TOOTBLAN.
Still, the Sox had the lead in the 7th after Castillo's second homer. Then the bullpen melted for the second consecutive game. Danny Farquhar gave up two home runs, a go-ahead shot by Russell Martin in the 7th, then by Aledmys Diaz to lead off the 8th. Roberto Osuna closed out the game for the Jays and, somewhere in Texas, Brandon Taubman quietly masturbated to it.
Final Score: White Sox 2, Blue Jays 4
In the first weird-ass road series of 20MM, the White Sox leave Cleveland after one game to travel north and visit the Blue Jays. This was a winnable game, too. Lopez, making his second start in 3 days, was very good, giving up 2 hits in 6 innings while K'ing 6 and walking 2. Meanwhile, the White Sox ran themselves out of two run-scoring opportunities.
In the 3rd, Yolmer Sanchez (note: I'm really tired of writing about his blunders and wish he would stop making them and go back to being a fun player to root for) stole second, advanced to 3rd on a bad Russell Martin throw to 2nd, and then got himself into a rundown between 3rd and home on an Adam Engel grounder...to the 3rd baseman. It looked like he was doing that thing where a baserunner will sacrifice themselves to give a runner a chance to score. Unfortunately, Yolmer was the lead (and only) baserunner, and succeeded only in moving the White Sox from having a runner on 3rd with 1 out to having a runner on 1st with 2 out. TOOTBLAN. With 1 out in the 6th, Jose Abreu tried to advance from 1st to 2nd on a flyball to Curtis Granderson. Which would be risky for someone fast, much less Jose Abreu. Needless to say, Granderson guns down Abreu and the inning ends. TOOTBLAN.
Still, the Sox had the lead in the 7th after Castillo's second homer. Then the bullpen melted for the second consecutive game. Danny Farquhar gave up two home runs, a go-ahead shot by Russell Martin in the 7th, then by Aledmys Diaz to lead off the 8th. Roberto Osuna closed out the game for the Jays and, somewhere in Texas, Brandon Taubman quietly masturbated to it.
Final Score: White Sox 2, Blue Jays 4
Game Notes:
- Jaime Garcia tried to pick off Adam Engel at 1st base in the top of the 5th. The throw was quite possibly the worst pickoff throw I've ever seen. I can only describe it as a half-assed attempt at an Eephus pitch. He threw the ball so far away from the intended target that Engel advanced to 3rd.
- WhiteSox MVP: Castillo. He's having a great week. In fact, so far he's the anti-Yolmer, as the experiment seems to pick the games where he played well. Too bad he won't be available for a while later in the summer...
- LVP: Farquhar.
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