{"id":240647,"date":"2025-09-20T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240647\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:58:10","slug":"chicago-white-sox-win-4-3-to-snap-six-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240647\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox win 4-3 to snap six-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox starter Davis Martin counts Dylan Cease and Michael Kopech among the many helpful pitchers early in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the guys that I want to be for some of our younger guys now,\u201d Martin said. \u201cJust great minds, great friends. Just really felt like they welcomed me to the big leagues and made me feel like a part of the clubhouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo a lot of the things I try to do as a professional stems from those two guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin and Cease were the starting pitchers as the Sox began the final home series of the season<\/a> Friday against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n

Martin allowed three runs over six innings and earned the win as the Sox snapped a six-game losing streak<\/a> with a 4-3 victory in front of 30,505 at Rate Field.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal going into the game was just attacking the zone,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI think looking at the last few outings, where we had some counts where we were falling behind on guys. This lineup is aggressive. They\u2019re a really good lineup if you fall behind, so just emphasis on getting ahead of guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of good stuff (on Friday). Offense did really well. Bullpen did really well. (Kyle) Teel caught a phenomenal game, and just all-around good White Sox win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin surrendered six hits, struck out four and walked one while throwing 77 pitches.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavis was great,\u201d Sox manager Will Venable said. \u201cHe was really aggressive in the zone. He\u2019s been aggressive the whole year, another example tonight. They did a really good job of matching his aggression.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly it turned into some quick outs, and later he had to work through some trouble. But a really nice job continuing to attack the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PadresPadres starter Dylan Cease delivers against the White Sox in the first inning on Sept. 19, 2025, at Rate Field. (Daniel Bartel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Cease allowed four runs on four hits with six strikeouts and three walks in six innings in his first outing against his former team.<\/p>\n

\u201cA part of it was cool coming back to a place I made a lot of starts at and obviously I was here for a while,\u201d Cease told reporters covering the Padres. \u201cI don\u2019t love that we didn\u2019t get the win. But it was definitely an interesting experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cease went 43-35 with a 3.83 ERA and 792 strikeouts over 123 starts during five seasons (2019-23) for the Sox after being acquired from the Chicago Cubs on July 13, 2017. The Sox traded Cease to the Padres<\/a> in March 2024.<\/p>\n

No one in Friday\u2019s Sox starting lineup played a regular-season game with Cease while he was with the Sox.<\/p>\n

Miguel Vargas started the scoring for the Sox with a two-run home run in the first.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a really good pitcher,\u201d Vargas said. \u201cI was just trying to put the ball in play and put some runners in scoring position.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Padres scored one run in the third and another in the fourth to tie the score. Martin was particularly proud of limiting the Padres to one run in the fourth. They had the one run in and runners on the corners with one out when Martin struck out Jake Cronenworth and got Freddy Fermin to ground out to third.<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite Sox starter Davis Martin delivers against the Padres in the first inning Sept. 19, 2025, at Rate Field. (Daniel Bartel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s taking the ego out of pitching and realizing where we\u2019re at and realizing the goal is to win the game, not pad your own stats,\u201d Martin said of the mindset to escape that jam. \u201cIt\u2019s trying to get guys out as fast as you can. If you give up one run, that\u2019s great instead of three.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, the goal is to win the game. So however we can minimize damage the best way we can. That was the thought process with everybody on base there, how can we get out of this with one run or less and don\u2019t let it kind of spiral out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sox (58-96) regained the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth. Cease hit two batters in the inning and both ended up scoring. Curtis Mead drove in a run with a single to put the Sox ahead. Will Robertson followed with an RBI single, making it 4-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came out aggressive,\u201d Venable said of the team\u2019s approach against Cease. \u201cHe was aggressive too. He\u2019s obviously got great stuff. Chase (Meidroth) did a really nice job setting the tone with a (seven-pitch) quality at-bat (leading off the game).<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys followed behind him, and we stuck with the program the whole night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holding on to a 4-3 lead after six innings, the Sox turned to their bullpen. Jordan Leasure (1 2\/3 innings), Brandon Eisert (one-third of an inning) and Grant Taylor (one inning) combined to limit the Padres to one hit while striking out four.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween (Taylor), Leasure and Eisert, that was crisp,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can ask for a better seven, eight, nine out of those three guys. It\u2019s something I think is really positive and something that those guys have been doing behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust kind of want to shed some light on that because they\u2019ve been really good down the stretch. It was a lot of fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox starter Davis Martin counts Dylan Cease and Michael Kopech among the many helpful pitchers early…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[77517,960,1274,29811,27044,67720,16076,5386,1818,77516,16077,27038,1306,112674,13250],"class_list":{"0":"post-240647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-brandon-eisert","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-curtis-mead","12":"tag-davis-martin","13":"tag-dylan-cease","14":"tag-grant-taylor","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-jordan-leasure","18":"tag-kyle-teel","19":"tag-miguel-vargas","20":"tag-san-diego-padres","21":"tag-will-robertson","22":"tag-will-venable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234858868823639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240647","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=240647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}