After a stirring, fall-from-ahead-come-from-behind win in Friday’s home opener, it’s understandable that Chicago White Sox fans felt a bit of optimism. Coming off of a split in Cleveland, the presumptive AL Central winners throwing their best and third-best arms at the White Sox, taking the red-hot Seattle Mariners down a peg seemed to forecast better days ahead.
Well, after a 9-2 drubbing on Saturday and 12-5 defeat today, those better days are up in smoke, just like much of Chicago’s pitching staff and batting order.
Iván Nova pitched to contact again, but where he benefitted from lousy Cleveland hitters and frigid temps last week, today he ran into a buzzsaw of a Seattle offense, which touched him for seven hits and seven earned in the process of just seven outs.