That certainly wasn’t the result that most of us were hoping for.
In some senses, it was a worst-case scenario: Lance Lynn was erratic and without his best stuff, and the offense simply couldn’t make anything happen, looking fairly anemic from top to bottom. Too many things went wrong in Thursday’s 6-1 loss to pin the blame on any particular person, group, or moment.
There’s a lot to unpack, but at the bottom line, there were a whole lot of a few basic principles of winning baseball that the White Sox could not abide by in Game 1.