White Sox blow 7-0 lead and lose to A’s, 10-9
Including the prospects game, sixth straight loss heading into the regular season
Isaac Newton knew long ago that momentum isn’t always upward. | Getty Images The big, magic word for the White Sox this year is supposed to be “momentum. ” Momentum works both ways, folks.
To demonstrate without using video of a Russian dissident making the poor decision to stand by a an upper-story window, let us select this afternoon’s Cactus League finale. The Sacramento or wherever they’re playing this year A’s tried as hard as they could to hand the game to the White Sox early. Starting pitcher Luis Morales walked the bases loaded in the first and then hung a sinker that Lenyn Sosa hammered for a three-run double.
Reliever JJ Goss then gave up four runs in the fourth on a slew of hits, the key being a two-run double by Chase Meidroth. Voila! White Sox up, 7-0!
What could possibly go wrong, especially given the A’s pulled all their starters after two innings so they’d have plenty of time to pack for the flight home, inserting minor-leaguers? Plenty, it turned out. Anthony Kay, who had been having a good spring, didn’t exactly coast through the first three innings.