Tuesday's performance wasn't Reynaldo Lopez's worst outing of the 2019 season. But it was perhaps the most frustrating for White Sox fans watching at home.
Lopez got plenty of support early in the first of a two-game series against the Washington Nationals, the White Sox offense scoring four runs off Stephen Strasburg in the first inning and adding another in the second. Lopez was handed a 5-0 lead after an inning and a half.
But it didn't take long for that lead to evaporate. Anthony Rendon followed up his two-run double in the bottom of the third with a three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth, completely erasing that 5-0 gap and chasing Lopez after just four innings of work.