Closer Gregory Santos was called for a balk with the bases loaded in the ninth inning as the Chicago White Sox lost 7-6 to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium.
Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Gregory Santos throws during the ninth inning of a game against the Kansas City Royals on Sept. 5, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo.Just when they thought they’ve seen it all, the Sox fell 7-6 to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium. The game-winning run scored when closer Gregory Santos was called for a balk with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning.
While the attention will be on the last sequence, the Sox had plenty of opportunities to put the game away. Instead, they let a 6-0 lead slip away for their fifth straight defeat and fall to a season-worst 33 games under .500 at 53-86.“It was down to executing earlier in the game, it’s not just the last inning,” catcher Korey Lee said. “A lot of people just see the last inning but it was a team effort and we just came up short tonight.
Home runs accounted for the Sox offense. Yoán Moncada hit a two-run home run and Lee added a three-run blast in the second inning. It was Lee’s first big-league home run. Andrew Vaughn homered in the third, making it a 6-0 lead. The Sox loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth and had runners on second and third with two outs in the sixth, but failed to score. That would come back to hurt them.
“Hitting’s tough,” Grifol said. “Sometimes you get a good pitch to hit and you do it and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes they make good pitches. It was a good ballgame all the way around until that last inning.”
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