Bases loaded, top of the first, Joe Boyle looking like a deer in the headlights on the bump, the perfect opportunity to do damage early. Nathaniel Lowe strikes out. Boyle regains control and shuts down the Sox with nine total strikeouts. A late send by Kyle Hudson for Romy Gonzalez in the fourth inning, who ends up getting nailed at the dish.
From the verge of history, to the depths of horror. The kind of unimaginable nightmare even these slumping Dodgers didn't seem capable of. One minute, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was on the precipice of a no-hitter, needing just one out to put his name in the record books. The next, orange Baltimore Orioles jerseys were sprinting around the bases, what had seemed like a storybook night going suddenly wrong.
But the Kelly promotion feels.... curious among a Worcester pitching staff of guys who have been much more effective, and we know from earlier in the year that he's going to be hit around. Enter a Connelly Early start Tuesday that would have some (hi, it's me, I'm some) questioning the formation of this pitching staff. Even if the possibility of promoting Early leads to there being too much youth on this team, it's better to evaluate them rather than blow
The team arrived in Atlanta to play a talented-but-underachieving Braves team and hoping to right the ship. Everything was going according to plan in Monday's series opener. The White Sox bats came out hot and knocked Atlanta starter Spencer Strider out of the game in the fourth inning. By the sixth, the Sox held a 10-1 lead, and it felt out of reach for the Braves.
