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White Sox confident Eloy Jiménez will improve defense after outfield miscue

It bothers Eloy Jiménez that his defense has been repeatedly called into question.

Thankfully for him, he was busy playing last night and not scrolling through White Sox Twitter.

Without question, his latest misadventure in left field was a glaring one. He thought Christian Yelich’s fifth-inning fly ball Thursday night was heading to the warning track, he said Friday. Instead, it wound up near the foul line. The ball dropped past Jiménez’s outstretched arm, and he tumbled into the netting and into the seats as Yelich rounded the bases for an inside-the-park home run.

The highlight-reel nature of the play didn’t help.