It would seem like a game that started off with back-to-back White Sox hitters drilling Orioles starter Wade Miley with whistling line drives has the potential for offensive success. Miley getting struck by multiple baseballs forced him to leave the game with a left wrist contusion in the first inning, which would only further suggest the Sox bats were primed for a big day. And when Miley was replaced by longman Gabriel Ynoa, who owned a 6.65 ERA in Triple-A in his only pitching so far in 2017, the Sox seemed primed for a feast.
But baseball is a funny game, even if it’s frequently laughing at you more than it’s making you laugh, and the Orioles beat the Sox 4-2 behind pure dominance from Ynoa — their Ynoa, not Michael Ynoa – -who cut through every big bat in the Sox lineup in a crucial RBI situation when he needed to.