Issues in the 8th led to the Cleveland Baseball Club letting a tie game slip away from them leading to a 6-4 loss.
The post-trade deadline Cleveland Baseball Club is experiencing the same issues the pre-deadline version did. With the game tied at 4 in the 8th, it was James Karinchak who came into the mound. Karinchak failed to record an out as the White Sox tallied two runs on three hits and one walk.
There was a moment where tempers flared as Karinchak unintentionally hit Jose Abreu in the helmet with a wild pitch. This allowed the final run to score as Chicago would go on to win the game 6-4 as a result. Karinchak was received by Nick Wittgren who proceeded to strike out the next three batters.
Prior to the issues in the 8th, Cleveland was able to get out to an early 2-0 lead thanks to a two RBI double from Franmil Reyes. Chicago would go on to score three unanswered runs from the 2nd to 4th innings off of JC Mejia. Mejia would last just 4.1 innings as he allowed four runs on four hits and four walks.
Jose Ramirez would tie things up in the 5th with a RBI single. The White Sox would again take the lead, this time by Blake Parker walking in a run, the final run charged to Mejia.
A solo home run from Franmil Reyes in the 8th would find things all tied up yet again. But this preceded the ineffective outing from Karinchak which ultimately led to the loss for Cleveland.
This was the first game since Terry Francona stepped away for remainder of the season. Cleveland is in the mode of finding things out about the younger fringe type guys on the roster , so a high volume of loses the rest of the way would hardly be surprising. Game 2 in Chicago is set to take place at 7:10 P.M.
