Chicago White Sox cruise past Baltimore Orioles by 6-2 – MLB Update
The Chicago White Sox put in a brilliant performance to defeat Baltimore Orioles 6-2 at U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago on Monday, May 2.
It was Mark Buehrle, whose scoreless six innings gave a morale booster to the defence that eventually led to the offence going equally aggressive to overwhelm the Orioles.
The starting pitcher who enthralled a number of spectators in the game also won the approval of his team manager. "He was good. Gave up solo home runs and didn't have any margin of error. I'd like to see us get ahead there a little bit. It's frustrating,
he had good stuff," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said.
The star player was genuinely wondering if he should express his enormous delight over the performance or show restraint. “I don't know if I'm downplaying it more than everybody else, everybody is congratulating me, Ozzie [Guillen] gave me a bottle of champagne.
There are all round numbers, but it is 150 more than I ever dreamed of having."
After two scoreless innings which saw none of the teams go for a major hit, Chicago’s Juan Pierre singled to centre to open the account. It was a lead that Chicago desperately needed given the fact that their pitcher Mark Buehrle was throwing extraordinarily
well. Buehrle maintained pressure on Baltimore as Paul Konerko hit a sacrifice fly to left to make it 2-0 for the White Sox.
Alex Rios made it four for Chicago in the seventh inning while the Orioles were still looking to find a way out of the run-drought their team was facing. However, Chicago had other plans set to stop the Orioles from scoring. They maintained the run flow
and made it 6-0 in the eighth inning when Konerko got two runs when he homered to left allowing Alexei Ramirez to score. Ramirez capitalised on Clay Rapada’s fastball to pave the way to victory for his team.
Chris Sale made sure that no extraordinary hit came in the ninth inning that could allow the Orioles to create problems for the White Sox. However, Derrek Lee struck hard and homered to right to get two runs. However, it was too little too late to stop Chicago
from a clear 6-2 victory against the Orioles.
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