{"id":667616,"date":"2026-04-07T04:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:04:16","slug":"brisk-temps-and-colder-bats-hand-the-white-sox-a-2-1-loss-to-the-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667616\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisk temps and colder bats hand the White Sox a 2-1 loss to the Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a cold-night mix of sharp pitching and sloppy play, and despite a ninth-inning push, the White Sox<\/a> managed just four hits in an anticlimactic end to their win streak. The Orioles <\/a>didn\u2019t do much better, though, with just seven hits.<\/p>\n

Both teams wasted the first inning, each stranding a player on second. Erick Fedde came in for the second inning to replace the opener Grant Taylor and had a quick 1-2-3 inning. Austin Hays singled in his first at-bat against his former team, yet amidst a strikeout, Adley Rutschman caught Hays stealing to end the frame.<\/p>\n

Fedde continued to dominate in the third, and Chase Meidroth got on base again, this time via a single (first was a walk), but once again, his teammates left him on base. This is a theme that would be repeated often as the Sox went a terrible 1-for-9 with RISP.<\/p>\n

Rutschman picked up a walk with two outs in the top of the fourth, showing Fedde is indeed a mortal after all. Tyler O\u2019Neill singled on a fly ball and managed to get Rutschman in, but in the process, Hays left the field limping after trying to field the ball. Now with the Orioles up 1-0, Ryan Mountcastle followed up with a single, putting runners in the corners with two outs. Fedde bounced back, forcing Colton Cowser to go down swinging, and stopped any further damage. Derek Hill picked up a two-out walk and stole second in the bottom of the fourth, but Andrew Benintendi stranded him, of course.<\/p>\n

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Coby Mayo started the top of the fifth with a single, but the progress was quickly erased with a double play ball, and Munetaka Murakami snatched a foul ball to end the frame. The Sox were retired in order.<\/p>\n

Gunnar Henderson led off the sixth with a solo home run, putting the O\u2019s up 2-0. In the Sox half, Meidroth once again got on base, went to second on a wild throw, and then third on a throwing error from Rutschman on the pickoff attempt. But guess what happened? He was stranded. Did you predict that outcome?<\/p>\n

Mountcastle reached first on a base hit to start the seventh. Thankfully, the only White Sox position player who decided to show up (Meidroth) saved the inning by initiating a double play. In the bottom of the frame, Hill challenged and won a strike three call, giving him a full count turned walk. Alas, Rutschman again picked him off in a strike \u2019em out, throw \u2019em out.<\/p>\n

Lucas Sims entered the game, replacing Fedde, in the eighth, and gave up a single to right away to Jeremiah Jackson. Two quick outs followed, and Quero threw Jackson out as he was attempting to swipe second during Pete Alonso\u2019s at-bat. The South Siders went down in order in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n

The ninth opened quietly, but the Good Guys made it interesting in the bottom half. Back-to-back walks to Murakami and Vargas put runners on first and second. A ground out by Montgomery moved both into scoring position, and Mune came home on a pinch-hit ground out by Lenyn Sosa. Benintendi kept things interesting with an in-field single, but birthday boy Edgar Quero went down on strikes, killing any momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a cold-night mix of sharp pitching and sloppy play, and despite a ninth-inning push, the White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,84005,72543,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-667616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox-analysis","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox-discussions","13":"tag-chicagowhitesox","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-white-sox","16":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116361447561454257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}