The White Sox are 8-21, winners of one straight game after Andrew Vaughn’s towering walk-off blast capped off a wild seven-run ninth inning to beat the Tampa Bay Rays and put a formal end to one of the worst stretches of baseball this team has seen in decades.
The Starter
Drew Rasmussen was effective for Tampa Bay despite not looking his sharpest, throwing an even five innings and allowing just three runs, all earned, despite equaling a season-high with nine hits allowed. He filled up the zone with a cutter-fastball combo that were fairly effective from a swing-and-miss standpoint, but he couldn’t find the zone with his breaking balls at all, and got burned when he was forced to come over the plate with those fastballs in hitters’ counts.