![]() Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Logos were compiled by the amazing .Ĭopyright © 2000-2022 Sports Reference LLC. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. We present them here for purely educational purposes. In his last start, Smeltzer gave up three homers and allowed seven earned runs in 3 1/3 innings at Texas on July 9.All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Twins: Minnesota will counter with LHP Devin Smeltzer (4-2, 3.92). On July 5 in Chicago, the Twins tagged him for four home runs in five innings in a 8-2 defeat. Kopech is 0-4 in his last five starts and has seen his ERA rise by almost a run and a half over that span. White Sox: RHP Michael Kopech (2-6, 3.35 ERA) will take the mound on Friday night. Twins: Gray said Harrison’s line drive caught him in the area of his right tricep, but he didn’t think it had any effect on him being unable to finish the fourth inning. La Russa said Jiménez had experienced some cramping in the leg, but expressed hope that he might return to action during the four-game series in Minnesota. White Sox: OF Eloy Jiménez (hamstring) was held out of the lineup after leaving Wednesday’s game at Cleveland in the seventh inning. The game is cruel at times.” - La Russa on Twins starter Sonny Gray “Gray really pitched well, it was just that one inning - hung that one slider and it’s four runs. “That’s a lot of pitches, but if he was supposed to pitch five days from now, no way.” “If this wasn’t his last game of the first half, he’d have never gone out there,” La Russa said. La Russa said the upcoming All-Star break played a role in letting Cueto get his wish. “I said, ‘Well, OK, one guy gets on, you’re outta there.’ He goes ‘OK.’”Ĭueto lived up to his end of the bargain, striking out Alex Kiriloff, Miranda and Urshela to finish his day with a flourish. “I said, ‘I’m gonna get you,’ and he said, ‘No, I’ve got more, I’ve got more.,’” La Russa said. But Cueto asked to pitch one more inning, so La Russa made a deal with him. ![]() La Russa said that he was ready to pull Cueto after the fifth inning, when his pitch count was already at a season-high 104. The Twins threatened again in the third when Byron Buxton led off with a triple, but Cueto buckled down and stranded him to keep the White Sox on top. The Twins put runners on the corners with nobody out, but AJ Pollock threw out Urshela attempting to score on Luis Arraez’s fly ball to left, and Cueto struck out Carlos Correa to end the inning. Minnesota left the bases loaded in the first, but got on the board in the second when Jose Miranda led off with a single and scored on Gio Urshela’s double. After Gavin Sheets singled, Vaughn’s broken-bat roller up the middle hit second base and skittered away, plating Abreu. Anderson singled on Gray’s first pitch and came around to score on José Abreu’s two-out base hit. The White Sox got started with a pair of runs in the first inning. If pitchers throw me a different pitch, I’m able to make the adjustment.” “When I’m good, I’ve been feeling good at home plate, I’m able to make adjustments,” Robert said. Foul ball, check swing and then the third one.”Īfterward, Robert admitted he wasn’t looking for a slider on that pitch - he was waiting for a fastball. “It was a 1-1 count, threw him a slider away. “I thought it was OK,” Gray said of the pitch Robert hit. Gray induced a grounder for a force out at the plate, but he left a slider over the plate to Robert, who crushed it for his 12th homer of the season. ![]() Seby Zavala followed Harrison’s hit with a single before Anderson walked to load the bases. After being checked by the Twins’ trainer and manager Rocco Baldelli, Gray stayed in the game, but his outing quickly went south. With one out in the fourth, Gray was hit on the right shoulder by Josh Harrison’s line drive. Twins starter Sonny Gray (4-3) gave up six runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings. Jimmy Lambert, Tanner Banks and José Ruiz each pitched an inning to close it out for the White Sox. “Not only the way he pitches but the way he is around the clubhouse and what he’s done for guys, he’s just brought so much to this club,” White Sox manager Tony La Russa said. Rays defeat Nationals 7-2, open season with 6 straight wins ![]()
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