Things worth mentioning…

• Aaron Sanchez was solid in his second start of the season. He allowed three earned runs on five hits and two walks over six innings while striking out seven. Like last game, the majority of the damage came in one inning in which he seemed to start running out of gas and lost the strike zone. Still, all in all, it was a good outing for Sanchez who was topping out at 96 and was throwing a wicked curveball.
• It was a strange play in the fifth inning that gave the White Sox the lead. Sanchez loaded the bases on a walk, single, and walk, then Yoan Moncada hit a ball to the outfield wall that was trapped by Curtis Granderson, but the runner on third, Welington Castillo, went back to tag and just didn’t run home. They ultimately awarded Moncada a single, overruling the original out call, and gave everyone one base. It seemed odd the runner who fucked up at third base wasn’t penalized here.
• The White Sox would end up winning off of an eighth inning homer from Jose Abreu off of Ryan Tepera. It was Tepera’s first earned run of the season, so we’ll give him a pass. The ‘pen was excellent otherwise as The Final Boss tossed a dominant seventh and Aaron Loup pitched a scoreless ninth.
• The bats were kind of quiet tonight, scattering seven hits and one walk. The Jays didn’t hit a homer for the first time all year, but they came close a few times, namely Justin Smoak’s warning track shot in the eighth. They left 13 runners on base and squandered multiple opportunities to pile some runs on the board.