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Pinch-hit single spoils four-run comeback as White Sox drop opener in Seattle

SEATTLE — Maybe the White Sox can appeal to the Commissioner that games that end after midnight central time shouldn’t count.

A ninth-inning Guillermo Heredia pinch-hit single off reliever Dan Jennings scored Jarrod Dyson from second, and the Sox suffered their fourth-straight loss 5-4 in the fourth game of their increasingly troubled west coast swing. The White Sox (17-22) have lost 10 of their last 12 games and are a half-game out of last place in the AL Central.

“Danny threw a good pitch, the guy hit a blooper,” White Sox third baseman Todd Frazier said. “In this game, sometimes you don’t need a good swing.