It looked for just a second, perhaps two seconds, as if the White Sox were going to have enough good fortune to have a crack at sweeping the Reds. Miguel Vargas led off with a dribbler to third off of Nick Martinez and was initially called safe. Alas, the call was challenged by Terry Francona and (quite properly) overturned.
That was the closest the Sox would come to a base runner until a Matt Thaiss single in the fifth, and by then they were down, 5-0. Martinez yielded one more single and no walks in seven innings, the lone Sox run coming off a reliever after a Joshua Palacios double and a single by Vargas (who had half the team’s four hits), in the eighth.