White Sox beat Rays with walk-off walk
Logan Forsythe’s RBI double drove in Longoria, who doubled with two outs.
The Rays will try to give themselves another boost by completing their first season sweep of the White Sox and first in a road series Wednesday. Tampa Bay would not score any more runs that inning.
Eventually, Shaffer ended up in the middle of a scrum of his loving teammates, and in that moment, everything in the world was ideal. TV cameras caught his parents jumping out of their seats and hugging.
After hitting their first big hit, rookies commonly get a rousing celebration from their teammates in the dugout.
McCutchen hit a solo homer in the third and added a sacrifice fly in the sixth to make it 6-4.
Having scored zero runs in their last game, the White Sox are going to have to up their game if they want to win this matchup. This time, he struck out seven and yielded just two runs on six hits and one walk. “Every game I always feel anxious to start every single game”. It’s just not showing up.
5 runs, 5 hits, 1 error, 0 left on. A second run scored on the play when catcher Tyler Flowers allowed Adam Eaton’s throw to roll between his legs and no one backed up the plate.
The Sox have given Sale rest in past seasons to deal with arm soreness and fatigue, but Ventura said he doesn’t expect to skip one of Sale’s starts now. Tampa Bay has won their last five games against Chicago. That’s the most such games in major-league history, and one more than former Yankee Nick Swisher. So far they have two wins, and assuming the White Sox are still in the race after these 19 games, they might have a chance to hang around until the end.
“I knew I hit it pretty much as sweet as I could get it”, Parker told reporters. “Do people get the day off for it?”
Rays: OF Desmond Jennings (left knee bursitis) went 1-for-3 as a designated hitter for Triple-A Durham on Tuesday night and is scheduled to DH on Wednesday as he continues his rehab assignment…. He had been 0-4 in his previous six starts.
Smyly went on the 15-day disabled list May 8 with a torn labrum in his left shoulder and he was moved to the 60-day DL May 13.