Six Pack of Stats: Pirates 1, White Sox 0

For the second straight series after a possibly-promising season-opening split with Houston, the White Sox had a chance to claim a series win after dropping the opening contest. For the second straight series, they dropped the ball, this time in an excruciating 1-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates despite facing an unproven starter on the other end of a bounce-back performance from Michael Kopech.

The Starters

This start for the mercurial Michael Kopech played out as the inverse of his disastrous season-opener against San Francisco, withstanding a run in a near-disastrous second inning before settling down for six frames after that, notching his first quality start of the 2023 season (and first…