You might think it cute that Jose Berríos, he of the 3.86 ERA in 2018 and 4.75 career ERA Berríoses coming into today’s late brunch game vs. the Chicago White Sox, goes by the nickname “La Máquina” — “the machine.”
If so, after Berríos’ second dissection of the Chicago White Sox in the space of two months — today’s a 7-2, complete-game, 135-minute massacree — you best pipe down.
Berríos once more proved almost unhittable facing Pale Hose, retiring the first 14 White Sox en route to 10 strikeouts, none believed to be C.B. Bucknor-aided.