Tag: Paul DeJong

White Sox earn another embarrassing loss by forgetting how many outs there are in the 9th inning

It can always get uglier for the White Sox

The White Sox have no shortage of losses this season.

Entering Friday, Chicago’s 56 L’s led MLB with the next-worst team, the Colorado Rockies, still six games back. Loss No. 57 for the Sox may not be the worst they experience this year (the season is still too young to make that declaration), but it will be one of the most memorable.

Trailing by one run against the rival Detroit Tigers with one out in the ninth inning, Paul DeJong reached base on a hit by pitch. Now, you would think given the fact that he was the second batter of the inning, DeJong would know there was only one out.

But these are the 2024 Chicago White Sox were talking about. Nothing is a given. Which means not only did DeJong forget how many outs there are, he ran into a double play in the most embarrassing way possible.

An 8-6-3 double play to end the game. Oof.

The salt in the wound here for South Siders is hearing Jason Benetti — the former Sox announcer and hometown icon — on the call for the Tigers, ripping Chicago for giving away a victory to Detroit.

DeJong owned up to his blunder but the explanation doesn’t do much to ease the sting.

“It was a mental lapse there,” DeJong said. “I was worried about getting on base and just didn’t keep track of [the outs], so that’s totally on me and it cost us the game.”

The Chicago White Sox are 20-57. There are 85 games remaining. Each, apparently, with the potential to end worse than the last.
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A comedy of errors by the Cardinals in the second allows Phillies to score six hilarious runs

It doesn’t get any more unfortunate than this for Carlos Martinez and the Cardinals.

Carlos Martinez just had an absolute inning to forget for the St. Louis Cardinals, and the worst part is much of it wasn’t his fault. In the second inning of the Cardinals Friday night game against the Philadelphia Phillies, the home team batted around on Martinez in the worst possible way.

In total, the Cardinals had a calamity of mishaps in the second inning, including:

  • A slip that caused an infield single.
  • A botched double play to allow another single.
  • A ball lost in the lights to score a run.
  • A hit-by-pitch on the pitcher with the bases loaded to score.

The inning started off routinely for Martinez, who struck out J.T. Realmuto. However, the next batter Alec Bohm was able to reach first after Cardinals short stop Paul DeJong slipped on the grass to allow the infield single. Then, with runners on the corners, outfielder Dylan Carlson lost a ball hit by Jean Segura in the lights, allowing a run to score on the goof.

The inning, however, didn’t stop there. With the bases loaded after intentionally walking Mickey Moniak to get to pitcher Zach Eflin, Martinez hit Eflin with a pitch and the Phillies were able to double the lead to 2-0.

Unfortunately for Martinez, the Phillies scored four more runs in the inning to put the Cardinals behind the eight ball 6-0 at the end of the second. It’s even more unlucky for Martinez because most of the earned runs he accumulated in the inning weren’t his fault.

Alas, that’s sometimes just how it goes in baseball.

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