{"id":689463,"date":"2026-03-29T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/689463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:08:13","slug":"miscues-lead-to-6-1-loss-to-milwaukee-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/689463\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscues lead to 6-1 loss to Milwaukee Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Chicago White Sox pitching and hitting stood out for all the wrong reasons in Thursday\u2019s season opener when the team struck out 20 times and issued 10 walks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, it was the defense.<\/p>\n

The miscues \u2014 physically and mentally \u2014 piled up early for the Sox defensively during a 6-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers in front of 36,030 at American Family Field. Munetaka Murakami went deep for the second straight game<\/a>, but the Sox couldn\u2019t overcome their defensive mistakes while falling to 0-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to clean it up,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to point to there where we need to improve. These guys, they\u2019re playing hard, but we\u2019ve got to clean up some of this stuff that these guys can do a better job of, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sox were charged with one error. But that doesn\u2019t tell the story.<\/p>\n

Venable referred to the defense early in the game as \u201csloppy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Left fielder Andrew Benintendi didn\u2019t come up with a fly ball near the wall to begin the bottom of the first, resulting in a double for Brice Turang.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat first play, felt the wall come and just kind of decided that his route was over,\u201d Venable said of the sequence.<\/p>\n

Christian Yelich drove in Turang with a one-out single through the drawn-in infield.<\/p>\n

Yelich then moved to third on a single to right by Jake Bauers. Right fielder Everson Pereira made an ill-advised throw to third that airmailed the cutoff man, allowing Bauers to advance to second easily.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat can\u2019t happen,\u201d Venable said. \u201cWe talked to him right away. He\u2019s got a good arm, sometimes those guys that have good arms get a little antsy there wanting to attack the lead runner. That\u2019s something we work on and he knows better. We talked about it, just have to go to second base there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garrett Mitchell followed with a two-run single, extending the Brewers\u2019 lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n

Turang\u2019s blooper in the second inning down the left-field line fell just in front of Benintendi for a two-out double.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of ground to cover there,\u201d Venable said.<\/p>\n

William Contreras walked and Yelich hit a tapper between the plate and mound. Starter Sean Burke\u2019s throw to first was off the mark, and the ball bounced away from Murakami. Yelich was credited with a single, and a run scored on the throwing error.<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami watches his solo home run in the fourth inning against the Brewers on March 28, 2026, in Milwaukee. (John Fisher\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Murakami provided a boost in the fourth, leading the inning off with a 409-foot home run to center field against Brewers starter Chad Patrick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the first one up in that inning and I really wanted to shift the momentum going in as we were a bit behind,\u201d Murakami said through an interpreter. \u201cI was really prepared to go into that at-bat and thankfully I was able to get that home run.\u201d<\/p>\n

Center fielder Tristan Peters doubled later in the inning for his first major-league hit.<\/p>\n

Murakami came up an inning later representing the tying run. Facing reliever Aaron Ashby with two on and two outs, Murakami struck out swinging and the score remained 4-1.<\/p>\n

The Brewers added a run in the sixth and prevented a run in the seventh when Colson Montgomery was thrown out at the plate trying to score from first base. Instead of Murakami batting with two on and two outs, the inning was over.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou understand what (third-base coach Justin Jirschele) saw there with (Brewers left fielder Brandon Lockridge) overrunning the ball there, but overly aggressive,\u201d Venable said. \u201cWe talked about that one. In that spot, Mune coming up, with two outs you want to be aggressive, but that was too aggressive right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell singled, stole second and later scored in the seventh, increasing the Brewers\u2019 lead to 6-1. They stole seven bases Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey kind of were just very aggressive out there, whether it was just the first pitch or certain counts or certain timings of the clock or something, they were definitely running,\u201d catcher Reese McGuire<\/a> said. \u201cThat\u2019s part of their game, we know that. We\u2019ve just got to do a better job of controlling that game.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the many areas the Sox need to sharpen.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously not how we want to start off,\u201d said Burke, who allowed four runs (three earned) on seven hits with five strikeouts and one walk in four innings. \u201cWe\u2019re capable of playing much better baseball than this, in every facet of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brewers are a good team, so we\u2019ve got to be able to make those adjustments and play a little better if we want to play up to that level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Chicago White Sox pitching and hitting stood out for all the wrong reasons in Thursday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":689464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[21050,960,1274,29987,69684,5386,1818,4247,150026,8754,27036,210045,13250],"class_list":{"0":"post-689463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-andrew-benintendi","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-colson-montgomery","12":"tag-everson-pereira","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","16":"tag-munetaka-murakami","17":"tag-reese-mcguire","18":"tag-sean-burke","19":"tag-tristan-peters","20":"tag-will-venable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116310737361626661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689463","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=689463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}