PITTSBURGH -- What a difference a week can make. Six days after allowing just three hits over 7 1/3 innings of work against the Pirates, White Sox right-hander Reynaldo Lopez surrendered four consecutive hits to lead off the game against Pittsburgh at PNC Park on Tuesday. He was pulled with nobody out in the top of the third, but the damage had already been done as the Pirates got to him for six earned runs on seven hits and cruised to a 7-0 win.
Meanwhile Lopez's counterpart, Pittsburgh right-hander Trevor Williams, arguably made his best start of the season.