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Nom, Nom, Nom: Cookie Monster Chews Up Sox but Tribe’s Loses a Wild One

Related Topics: Cookie Monster, Inning, Handedness

Oh…where to begin?

Carlos “Cookie” Carrasco, at times, harkened back memories of some of the game’s best pitchers. And at other times? Well, the not so great.

The good – heck, the dominant: the flame-throwing right-hander, who, for those that don’t remember, was acquired for as part of the Cliff Lee swap several years ago, fanned a whopping 11 White Sox hitters without allowing a walk over the course of 6.2 innings. The not-so-good: he departed the game with the Tribe winning 7-to-5. And four of those runs were of the earned variety.

The night started out with the promise of one of those special games.