Expecting the White Sox to steal a win against this lineup and Gerrit Cole was a tall order, but one would hope that the club would have brought a bit more fire to make things competitive after yesterday's debacle.
It did — but the fire went out after the first inning.
After Vince Velásquez got knocked around in the top of the first — which included getting clubbed by a monstrous two-run homer from Giancarlo Stanton — the White Sox put together a competent inning against Gerrit Cole. Of course, it helped that Cole fell behind most White Sox hitters, but the Sox reached a point where the bases were loaded with only one out.