The White Sox did not win Jonathan Cannon's first major-league start, but the rookie right-hander can say he did his job.
Cannon worked five innings in Game 1 of a doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday, allowing only one earned run on three hits. He struck out three and walked one, and he left the game with a 2-1 lead.
Alas, the Sox bullpen happened, and the Royals rallied for a 4-2 victory.
The run Cannon allowed was not his fault. He retired the first two batters in the top of the second inning, including his first career strikeout, which came against Salvador Perez.
Alas, center fielder Dominic Fletcher slipped and fell on what should have been a routine flyout off the bat of Nelson Velasquez, who made second base on the "double" and scored on a single by Adam Frazier.
Fortunately, the Kansas City lead didn't last. Paul DeJong's third home run of the season, a two-run shot, gave the Sox a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second.
The score stayed there until the eighth inning, when Perez connected for a two-run homer on a middle-middle fastball from Michael Kopech (0-2) to put the Royals ahead to stay at 3-2.
Hunter Renfroe added a solo home run for Kansas City in the ninth, and the Sox were toast.
The loss not only wasted Cannon's start, but it also ruined DeJong's best game in a Sox uniform. The shortstop went 3 for 3 with the aforementioned homer, a single, a double and a walk.
Game 2 goes to Sox
We have a surprise for you! The Sox won Game 2!
This time, two runs was enough. The Sox got a strong starting pitching performance from Erick Fedde in a 2-1 victory.
Fedde (1-0) allowed no runs on three hits over 5.2 innings. He struck out five and walked three.
The Sox got a run in the fourth after Andrew Vaughn doubled and scored on a single by Fletcher. Gavin Sheets hit his third home run of the season in the sixth inning for a 2-0 lead, and this time, the bullpen made it stick.
Tanner Banks allowed an unearned run in the seventh, but Deivi Garcia got six outs for his first save of the season.
The Sox are 3-15. There are 144 more games of this crap remaining.
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