Another day, another brief, beat-up outing by a White Sox starting pitcher.
They're just as tired of it as you are.
Yes, they're only 11 games into a 162-game season, and this stretch of bad pitching could very well end up a mere bump in the road. But as the White Sox wrapped a six-game homestand on the South Side with Wednesday's 9-1 loss to the visiting Tampa Bay Rays, the collected numbers were just plain ugly.
White Sox pitching allowed 53 runs over six games against the Rays and, before them, the Seattle Mariners. Starting pitchers gave up 47 of those runs, with Reynaldo Lopez adding a third straight sour start to begin his 2019 campaign, giving up eight runs on 10 hits and four walks Wednesday.