Lance Lynn celebrated getting his 1,500th career strikeout by then getting pummeled by the Houston Astros, something that happened to him regularly when he pitched for Texas. The first time through the lineup went just fine, five strikeouts and one unearned run following a Yoán Moncada throwing error. But the second time through? Fuggedaboudit.
The White Sox tied it up on an Adam Engel single and Moncada double in the third, but, oh, my, did the brown stuff hit the rotating blades in the bottom half — Jose Altuve double, Michael Brantley single for one run, Yordan Alvarez single, Carlos Correa walk, and then, with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count, a case of grooving one to Houston’s third-string third baseman.