As was made all-too-evident by the one-man lynch mob in tonight’s gamethread, Reynaldo López had one of those games tonight, in an 8-6 Chicago White Sox loss to Kansas City.
López was brutal, surrendering four home runs in 4 2⁄3 innings to a decidedly awful Royals club. Six earned runs went on his tab, off of nine hits.
With the temperature topping out at 87 degrees at game time, wind gusting 14 mph out to left, for the second straight night it wasn’t an ideal night for pitchers. And yet Glenn frigging Sparkman managed to to escape with just three earned in five innings, some of his 76 pitches managing to not slip, as he deftly improved to 4-11 on the season.