Carlos Rodón was in the groove but Corey Kluber was into grooving pitches, so an expected pitchers’ duel turned into an easy, 8-3 win for the Chicago White Sox this afternoon.
The first inning turned out to be a revelation. Cleveland’s two-time Cy Young winner, who normally just bulldozes through the White Sox (9-0 the last three years), struggled from the get-go.
Leury García smashed a liner up the middle on the first pitch of the game — the first of his four hits, Yoán Moncada walked, and even with Leury pulling a TOOTBLAN on a bounced pitch that didn’t roll far enough away, the onslaught continued.