To borrow the old joke, “The Indians and White Sox played this afternoon, and baseball lost.”
So, too, did the Sox, 5-2, ending their five-game winning streak, falling back to third place, and dropping two games under .500 in a mistake-filled contest. And they can’t blame it on any Gamethread jinx.
Things didn’t start out un-basebally. Yoan Moncada made a terrific play on Francisco Lindor to start the game:
Then, in the second, Charlie Tillson robbed Jason Kipnis: