The White Sox brought their AL Central lead back to nine games over Cleveland with a 2-1 win to kick off August. The team is off tomorrow, and will host Kansas City for a three-game series beginning Tuesday https://www.chicagowxstore.com/21-White_Sox_Adam_Engel_Jersey. The StartersCal Quantrill made his 12th start of the season today, and second against the White Sox, going six innings and allowing just three hits and a solitary unearned run, walking four and striking out six. It the third consecutive quality start for the 26-year-old former first-rounder https://www.chicagowxstore.com/77-White_Sox_Micker_Adolfo_Jersey, who was acquired in last season Mike Clevinger deal, and fourth in five tries. It lowered his ERA on the season to 3.40, and 2.36 in six starts since the beginning of July.Quantrill leaned heavily on a sinker/slider/changeup combo, mixing in an occasional four-seamer and curveball for an unimpressive 24% CSW. None of his pitches has particularly remarkable movement, drawing just nine swinging strikes in an even 100 pitches, but he avoided hard contact all day, allowing just two hard-hit balls. One could reasonably describe him as being effectively wild; his four walks were symptomatic of an overall lack of control, but White Sox bats did themselves no favors, as the second chart indicates. Hard to hit the ball 95+ mph on pitches like that!Jimmy Lambert and Reynaldo Lpez tag-teamed to get through six innings of their own before handing it off to the White Sox bullpen https://www.chicagowxstore.com/19-White_Sox_Youth, allowing just a single run on a Myles Straw solo shot in the third. Like Quantrill, Lambert struggled with control, needing 57 pitches to get through his three innings and throwing fewer than 60% of them for strikes. He threw a surprisingly zippy fastball over half of the time at about 94 mph for just a 16% CSW, and his secondaries failed to miss any bats Adam LaRoche Jersey, either. Still, he showed flashes of some plus stuff, and likely would have drawn more whiffs if he had been able to command better. Despite low spin, his fastball plays up in the zone due to good efficiency , and his changeup in particular showed nasty fade at times.Lpez, meanwhile, looked like every bit of the excellent multi-inning reliever wee been begging the team to try for over the past year-plus, riding exclusively fastballs and sliders to an excellent 40% CSW and four strikeouts against a single hit in his three innings following up Lambert. He hit a 40% CSW or better in three outings so far this season after doing it just twice in his career before. His stuff isn much different than in his days as a starter, but his location was excellent, peppering the strike zone with fastballs but avoiding the heart of the plate, and locating the slider in the right spots out of the zone.Pressure PlayEven when he slumping, Jos Abreu still finds a way to get into the thick of the action and drive in some runs, as he did today with his game-tying, bases-loaded, hit-by-pitch in the fifth inning. At 4.35 LI, it was the only plate appearance of the game with a leverage index higher than four, as both sides played evenly for most of the game, with neither team win expectancy poking higher than 65% until the very last swing.Pressure CookerIt hard to give special credit to any one member of the bullpen today, but a hat tip should go to Liam Hendriks ninth inning, which he entered with a game-high leverage index of 2.29. He did allow a two-out single to Franmil Reyes, but to get to that point he had already retired the heart of Cleveland order; Amed Rosario had himself a weekend to remember and Jos Ramrez has been murdering the Sox since time immemorial, but today was not their day of late-inning triumph.Top PlayWhat is there to say? Brian Goodwin telling the AL Central to kick rocks via right-field rocket shots wasn the plan entering spring training, but wel take it nonetheless. Assuming Gavin Sheets is soon-to-be optioned upon Luis Robert return, de-rostering Goodwin in favor of Jake Lamb when the latter rehab time in Charlotte runs out in short order would ring as a mistake.He knew it.We knew it.Brian Goodwin walks it off!

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