When White Sox catcher Alex Avila asked Athletics pitcher Sonny Gray how he was feeling Wednesday after a bout of the flu earlier in the week, Gray told him “not too good.”
“It didn’t seem that way,” Avila said.
Two days after missing the season opener because he was ill enough to warrant a trip to the hospital, Gray held the Sox to one earned run over seven innings in a 2-1 A’s victory at Oakland Coliseum. Gray gave up three hits with four walks and five strikeouts as the Sox dropped to 2-1.