Yu Darvish threw four innings Monday night, allowing just three hits and a walk, with three strikeouts. That’s good, right?
Oh. You can see that I’ve conveniently left out what happened with the first five batters Darvish faced before he did what I’ve described in the paragraph above.
Double. Single. Single. Walk. Grand slam. All of the White Sox’ first five batters scored in just 22 Darvish pitches, and that early 5-0 lead held up in a 5-3 White Sox win over the Cubs.
If you care about the result of this game or the fact that the Sox won both exhibition games played in Chicago over the last two days, I don’t know what to tell you.