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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Lenyn Sosa began the fifth inning for the Chicago White Sox with a line-drive double to left field.<\/p>\n

It was the team\u2019s first hit of the game.<\/p>\n

The Sox would get just one more hit in a 2-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals in front of 12,907 at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n

Kris Bubic was in complete control for the Royals, allowing two hits in seven scoreless innings. He struck out 11 and walked one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just in between, I thought,\u201d Sox manager Will Venable said of the at-bats against Bubic. \u201cThe game plan was to take the four-seam fastball away from him. We weren\u2019t able to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond time through, he was able to get to some spin. We chased below. Just kind of in between on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis Martin pitched well in the loss, allowing two runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and no walks in seven innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably the best knowledge of my stuff,\u201d Martin said. \u201cObviously there\u2019s still so much more that I feel like I can accomplish and so much more refining that I think I can do, but from this year to last year, I feel like I know what pitches are working, I know how to use them, and then second and third time through the lineup, I probably want to adjust and go from there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ve really got a good feel with my stuff right now. I\u2019m just trying to continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin pounded the strike zone Friday. He also credited his defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t talk about seven innings and (three strikeouts) without talking about defense,\u201d Martin said. \u201c(Right fielder) Derek (Hill) made a great play (for a diving catch in the sixth). (Left fielder) Tanner (Murray)<\/a> made a great play (throwing out Isaac Collins at second base in the third). Luisangel (Acu\u00f1a) in center was great.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour defense picks you up, and (first baseman Munetaka Murakami) with a great double play in the second inning. And when days like that happen, and you start to go right at people and it just kind of gives you more confidence to just go after them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was Martin\u2019s second consecutive quality start<\/a>. He held the Royals to 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. Opponents are 1-for-15 with runners in scoring position against Martin this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that he\u2019s one of our guys,\u201d Venable said. \u201cHe works so hard and puts himself in such a good position to continue to progress and do well. Every outing, it\u2019s better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Royals took the lead with a run in the fourth. Maikel Garcia began the inning with a single. He scored from first on a double by Bobby Witt. Jr., who has a 23-game hitting streak against the Sox.<\/p>\n

Carter Jensen hit a home run with one out in the seventh for the game\u2019s only other run.<\/p>\n

That was more than enough for Bubic and Royals relievers Matt Strahm and Lucas Erceg.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun, kind of going back and forth,\u201d Martin said of being involved in the duel. \u201cI know (Boston Red Sox pitcher Garrett) Crochet talked about it a couple of days ago with him and (Milwaukee Brewers starter Jacob) Misiorowski. When their guys are on, when you\u2019re on, it\u2019s a lot of fun. You\u2019ve just got to go out there and try to make one or two less mistakes than he does, and I just didn\u2019t do that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sox had three base runners the entire game \u2014 a one-out walk by Miguel Vargas in the first inning, Sosa\u2019s double in the fifth and a leadoff single by Hill in the sixth.<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite Sox reliever Duncan Davitt delivers in the eighth inning of his major-league debut against the Royals on Friday, April 10, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (Charlie Riedel\/AP)<\/p>\n

Duncan Davitt<\/a> pitched a scoreless relief inning for the Sox in his major-league debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t get anything better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Friday was a night for the pitchers. It\u2019s the second time<\/a> the Sox have been shut out this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really was well pitched on both sides,\u201d Venable said. \u201cDavis, that\u2019s as good as we\u2019ve seen him pounding the zone. I thought he had command of all his pitches. It was awesome. It\u2019s a shame we weren\u2019t able to score some runs for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut hats off to Bubic \u2014 he did a great job too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Lenyn Sosa began the fifth inning for the Chicago White Sox with a line-drive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,49,5285,8220,37335,936,2123,55,2596,2595,309,6646,4154,4,73,252,998],"class_list":{"0":"post-673019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-davis-martin","11":"tag-derek-hill","12":"tag-duncan-davitt","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-royals","16":"tag-kansascity","17":"tag-kansascityroyals","18":"tag-kris-bubic","19":"tag-lenyn-sosa","20":"tag-miguel-vargas","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-munetaka-murakami","23":"tag-royals","24":"tag-will-venable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116384364123639908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673019","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=673019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}