Rick Renteria summarized it well.
“Today was not one of our better games,” Renteria said. “I’m not going to try to sugarcoat it.”
The Brewers defeated the White Sox 8-3 Thursday in a game at Guaranteed Rate Field that turned around as quickly as Eloy Jimenez flopped into the net after failing to run down what looked like a routine fly out off the bat of Christian Yelich, who got the last thing he expected when the ball left his bat — an inside-the-park home run.
After Jimenez’ glove missed what looked like a harmless ball that dropped inside the line and bounced to the left field corner, Jimenez tumbled over the side wall. By the time he got on his feet and retrieved it, Yelich — who was jogging assuming it would be caught — was turning on the burners and circling the bases, sparking a four-run fifth inning.
In the third game of the season, Jimenez slammed into the wall chasing a home run he had no play on and missed two games, and he missed time last season getting hurt in the outfield, too. Renteria wasn’t critical Thursday, and he cited Jimenez’ determination to be an adequate defender and not a designated hitter.
“I’m sure he was embarrassed that the ball wasn’t able to be caught,” Renteria said.
“Well we’ve played 12 games? 13? So he made a mistake today and one that I’m sure he’s going to be kicking himself about. One more fly ball, one more fade that he gets to experience. I’m not going to harp on it because as I said, they are going to be few and far between. That’s probably not the story of the game. The story of the game is we were probably shut down a little bit on the offensive side.”
Left-hander Gio Gonzalez should have had two outs and nobody on protecting a 2-1 lead, but the inning unraveled from there with a walk, a homer by Jedd Gyorko and an error on first baseman Jose Abreu, who stayed flat-footed on a high throw from shortstop Leury Garcia.
“Shouldn’t walk that guy. Have to go out there and attack it, attack the strike zone,” Gonzalez said.
“I felt great. I felt I was going after the hitters. I felt like I was doing my job.”
Asked about his view of the inside-the-park homer, Gonzalez said, “I didn’t get a good angle on it. It looked foul. It’s one of those things. I don’t know, not much.”
Before all that, it was looking like Garcia’s night. He homered against Brewers starter Josh Lindblom — who struck out the first five Sox he faced — in the second for a 2-1 Sox lead. Garcia also made two consecutive nice plays in the fourth and his RBI double in the ninth pushed across the Sox’ third run. Aside from Garcia, the only offense came via singles from Yoan Moncada, Danny Mendick, Abreu and Nomar Mazara, who would leave the game after taking a pitch off his shin area.
Gonzalez (7.71 ERA) pitched 4 1⁄3 innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on eight hits and three walks. He has yielded 10 earned runs on 20 hits in 11 2⁄3 innings over three appearances.
Steve Cishek (11.57 ERA) hit two batters and walked two in a three-run Brewers eighth as the Sox (7-6) lost their second in a row.
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