Joe McEwing said Alexei Ramirez made the correct read in the ninth inning of Monday night’s 5-4 loss by the White Sox to the Tampa Bay Rays.
McEwing said he made the wrong one.
The split-second decision to send Ramirez home from second base on Adam LaRoche’s single to shallow center is an aggressive play that has benefited a stagnant White Sox a number of times in 2015. But it didn’t work on Monday as Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier threw a perfect strike home to easily nail Ramirez for the first out of the inning, and the White Sox ultimately didn’t score in the final frame of a one-run loss.