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San Francisco Giants’ Willy Adames runs into Chicago White Sox shortstop Chase Meidroth during the fifth inning on Friday, June 27, 2025, at Rate Field. (AP Photo\/Erin Hooley)<\/p>\nChicago White Sox second baseman Lenyn Sosa was in position to field Christian Koss\u2019 bouncer back up the middle in the sixth inning on Friday.<\/p>\n
But instead of an inning-ending double play, the ball bounced off the front of the bag and skipped over Sosa\u2019s head.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes the ball doesn\u2019t bounce your way, sometimes it does,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cThat was a tough play. Just (a) tough break. But got to work around those and just weren\u2019t able to.\u201d<\/p>\n
That extended the inning for Patrick Bailey, whose slicer bounced by diving right fielder Ryan Noda and rolled to the wall for a tie-breaking two-run triple.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably have to play that in front,\u201d Venable said. \u201cGood aggressive play, you like the thought. Just as a play, you play in front and minimize the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bounces didn\u2019t go the Sox\u2019s way in a 3-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants in front of 27,549 in attendance for the game and the Flo Rida concert that followed at Rate Field.<\/p>\n
The Sox had plenty of chances, but finished 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position while dropping the opener of the three-game series.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go out there and compete \u2014 just men in scoring position, we couldn\u2019t drive the run in,\u201d Sox first baseman Miguel Vargas said. \u201cThat\u2019s something we need to be better at.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very frustrating. We did a great job today at the plate. Not able to drive a couple of runs when we have bases loaded is a little tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Francisco Giants’ Willy Adames runs into Chicago White Sox shortstop Chase Meidroth during the fifth inning on Friday, June 27, 2025, at Rate Field. (AP Photo\/Erin Hooley)<\/p>\n
The Sox displayed some aggressiveness on the bases for the game\u2019s first run.<\/p>\n
Chase Meidroth was on second base when Vargas hit a scorcher that deflected off the glove of shortstop Willy Adames \u2014 ruled an error \u2014 and rolled into left field.<\/p>\n
Meidroth initially retreated to second, but turned around and raced to third. Third-base coach Justin Jirschele waved him home and Meidroth scored ahead of the relay throw by the third baseman Koss.<\/p>\n
The Giants took advantage of Sox starter Aaron Civale\u2019s wildness to tie the score in the third. Civale walked Bailey to begin the inning. With one out, he walked Rafael Devers. Wilmer Flores followed with an RBI double.<\/p>\n
Civale allowed the one run on three hits with four strikeouts and four walks in four innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust not crisp, usually a guy that leans on his command,\u201d Venable said. \u201cI don\u2019t think he had it. Kind of grinding there, did a good job of working around some walks the best he could. At the end of the day, the four innings were a pretty good grind for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Civale threw 80 pitches.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust went out there and competed,\u201d Civale said. \u201cDefinitely not the cleanest. I think it was 40 balls and 40 strikes, which is never something you want as a starter. But while I was out there, just did my best to compete and keep the game close.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sox had opportunities to reclaim the lead in the fourth and fifth innings, but came up empty.<\/p>\n
They loaded the bases with one out in the fourth, but Michael A. Taylor grounded into a double play. They loaded the bases again in the fifth with one out. Kyle Teel struck out and Sosa popped out to Adames.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a bunch of traffic, had the bases loaded twice with less than two outs and just didn\u2019t find any outfield grass,\u201d Venable said. \u201c(Giants starter Landen Roupp) does a good job of putting the ball in the ground with the sinker. We just weren\u2019t able to push them across.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adames played a role in the decisive sixth, drawing a leadoff walk against reliever Tyler Alexander. With one out, Koss hit the bouncer that bounced off second, then skipped over Sosa\u2019s head to give the Giants runners on first and second. Bailey\u2019s two-run triple that got past Noda, who has largely played first base in the majors, put the Giants ahead 3-1.<\/p>\n
The Giants went 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position. That was just enough to top the Sox.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did a lot of things really well tonight, obviously at the plate just got to find a way to drive a couple across,\u201d Venable said. \u201cBut some really good at-bats, good stuff leading up to those moments. Just got to keep grinding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox second baseman Lenyn Sosa was in position to field Christian Koss\u2019 bouncer back up the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[19406,960,1274,5386,1818,1822,5391,1275],"class_list":{"0":"post-20898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-aaron-civale","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-mlb-baseball","14":"tag-rate-field","15":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114759122529619264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}