The White Sox were 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position and it caught up when the Tigers rallied for three runs against Giolito in the seventh. “I didn’t have much left in the tank,” Giolito said.
Lucas Giolito seemed to figure out whatever it was that caused that eight-run disaster in Boston in his previous start.
He showed no effects Tuesday night from a cut on his middle finger in an unfortunate encounter with a twist-off cap on a glass bottle last Monday in Cleveland, pushing his turn back a couple days.
And then, after pitching six innings of one-run ball, it all caved in during the seventh inning of a 5-2 loss to the Tigers on Tuesday night that snapped a four-game Sox winning streak at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“I didn’t have much left in the tank,” Giolito said.
“If it’s my job to go out there and get outs I have to get them. It’s on me. I have to make better pitches. The seventh is my inning, I have to get the job done and I didn’t. It doesn’t matter how I’m feeling.”
Protecting a 2-1 lead, Giolito walked Willi Castro to lead off the inning, then allowed Wilson Ramos’ tying RBI double and Niko Goodrum’s two-run homer.
With right-hander Codi Heuer warming and ready in the bullpen, manager Tony La Russa allowed the well-rested Giolito to get his pitch count to reach 114 pitches, letting his ace carry on after mound visits from catcher Yasmani Grandal and pitching coach Ethan Katz.
“I’ll replay the inning and watch it on video,” La Russa said. “Maybe the leadoff walk should have alerted me but he got two outs after that. He’s facing a guy he got out all night. But he’s a very honest guy. If he felt like he didn’t have much left that’s tough for me to recognize because he’s not pulling himself out of that game.”
Try as they might, the last-place Tigers of the AL Central, who had lost 10 of 11 games, did what they could to supply Giolito with run support, making a whopping five infield errors behind Tigers starter Jose Urena in the first five innings, but the Sox hit into four double plays in the third (Grandal), fourth (Leury Garcia), fifth (Jose Abreu) and sixth innings (Grandal again).
The Sox were 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
“I don’t blame anyone for focusing on one inning but where was the game lost?” La Russa said. “It was lost because we didn’t add runs. Our offense has been very productive but it was one of those nights when we didn’t come through.
“The position players aren’t very happy right now.”
“We should have been up six, seven, eight runs,” Adam Eaton said.
The lacking offense left Giolito in a tight battle, and with the game on the line, La Russa was confident he could protect the lead. When he failed, Giolito appeared to be fuming, taking long strides to the dugout and winding up to throw his glove in the tunnel leading to the clubhouse.
“I was confident he could get the third out,” La Russa said. “It was his inning and it didn’t turn out.”
Told that Giolito said he didn’t have much in the tank, La Russa said, “Is that what he said? Then it’s my fault for not recognizing.”
Giolito worked 6 2⁄3 innings, allowing five hits, four earned runs, three walks and seven strikeouts. Miguel Cabrera homered in the first inning.
Tigers third baseman Jeimer Candelario made two errors, allowing a run to score in the first when he missed a throw from first baseman Jonathan Schoop and he brought home another in the third with a throwing error.
The Sox’ brought the tying run to the plate with one out in the eighth against Jose Cisnero, but Billy Hamilton and Leury Garcia struck out. Hamilton entered as a defensive replacement.
The Sox had won nine straight games against the Tigers and eight in a row at home, and had outscored them 69-23 during the nine-game streak, their longest in the series since 2001.
Schoop’s homer in the eighth against Matt Foster gave the Tigers a 5-2 lead.
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