For the flailing Chicago White Sox offense, it just wasn’t much of a game.
For starter Carlos Rodón, who entered action today with a tidy 1.59 ERA through his first two starts, it was a woefully inefficient one.
But for Monday bullpen call-up Carson Fulmer, an otherwise flaccid, 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays marked his first smiles on a baseball diamond in at least a year.
With the bullpen taxed and Rodón doing little to preserve it, burning through 111 pitches without even getting out of the fifth, Fulmer was a lifesaver.
Rodón largely only used his fielders to catch balls thwacked around by Tampa’s sneaky-good offense, surrendering eight hits and four earned runs, with his pitch count skyrocketing due to five walks and nine strikeouts.