Poor Chicago. That could have gone better. After going up 2-0 against Cleveland in the American League Division Series, the White Sox returned home with a chance to clinch a playoff series at home for the first time since 1906. They failed to do that, though, dropping Games 3 and 4, in which Cleveland\u2019s offense erupted for nine runs each night.<\/p>\n
Is Chicago\u2019s pitching simply exhausted? It looks like it. On Thursday night, Chicago used seven pitchers in the loss, including closer Grant Taylor, who got hit hard in a six-run sixth inning for Cleveland. The White Sox staff is also a little wild: they walked 10 batters in Wednesday\u2019s 9-3 loss and seven more with a hit batter on Thursday.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Cleveland had to use their ace starting pitcher Gavin Williams to get the last three outs in Game 4. Williams started the Guardians\u2019 4-3 loss in Game 2 on Monday, and was scheduled to pitch Game 5 on normal rest. But he\u2019s out on the mound again, giving his team a spot start in a win-or-go-home situation.<\/p>\n
With everything on the line, Chicago is handing the game ball to right-hander Sean Burke, who\u2019ll start on the road tonight at Progressive Field. Burke was efficient in Game 2, entering in the third and striking out six Guardians over 5 1\/3 innings while allowing one run on one hit. This time, Chicago isn\u2019t pairing him with an opener.<\/p>\n
Both teams are grateful for yesterday\u2019s day off. So who do you think will win Game 5 of the ALDS to face the Rays next week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poor Chicago. That could have gone better. After going up 2-0 against Cleveland in the American League Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,72999,76458,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":["post-826594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore-orioles-discussion","tag-baltimore-orioles-game-information","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-orioles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117420058399108599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826594","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=826594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}