White Sox get steamrolled by Marlins 10-0, as season’s ugly start rolls on

Zach Bove makes an early trip to the mound as Shane Smith works through a first inning that unraveled in a hurry. | (Jim Rassol/Imagn Images) The weather may have been warm in Miami, but Chicago’s bats? Ice cold.

The pitching? Somewhere south of that. The White Sox dropped to 1-5 on the young season after getting thoroughly flattened, 10-0, by the Miami Marlins in a game that somehow felt over before most people had finished their first bite of lunch.

If you were hoping for a clean slate after a rough Opening Day for Shane Smith, well, that hope didn’t last long. The righthander put together a first inning that can only be described as a full-blown tire fire. Four runs crossed the plate before he could even record a second out, thanks to four hits, a walk, and a throwing error that gifted Miami an extra run.

Three earned, one unearned, all ugly. And no, it didn’t get better. Smith came back out for the second and promptly made things worse.