Five batters, five runs. Yu Darvish took the bump at Guaranteed Rate Field and gave up three hits — double, single, single — to open the bottom of the 1st inning. Then he walked a batter before serving up a fastball that Eloy Jiménez deposited into the batter’s eye in center for a grand slam. Two outs were followed by a single, at which point Darvish had reached his pitch count and the frame mercifully ended.
After requiring 29 pitches to retire two of the eight batters he faced to start the game, however, Darvish settled in and needed only 38 pitches to retire nine of the next 10 batters the Sox sent to the plate.