December 22, 2024
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Nothing goes right for Orioles as Baltimore falls to lowly White Sox 8-1.

Albert Suárez put up one of his worst starts of the season and the bats went silent as Chicago staved off their 110th loss of the season.

A day after a dominant win that put them in first place, everything went wrong for the Orioles in a 8-1 loss to the MLB-worst White Sox.

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Early on, it felt like the game was set for a similar script to Monday’s 13-3 win. Nicky Lopez led off the game with a solo HR to right-center as Baltimore fell behind in the 1st inning for the second time in three games. And yet, everything felt like it would be ok when Gunnar Henderson stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the 1st and cranked his 35th HR on a 3-1 cutter to tie the game.

The long ball set an Orioles franchise record, passing Miguel Tejada and Cal Ripken for most HRs in a season by a SS. It also seemed like it’d set up the Orioles for another delayed offensive explosion. However, those runs never came.

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The White Sox, on the other hand, continued to rain down home runs against Albert Suárez and the O’s. After giving up the leadoff blast to Lopez, it looked like the O’s de facto ace would settle back into his dominant ways. He put away the next three batters in the first inning on a pop-up, a fly out and a ball tapped back to the pitcher.

Suárez cruised through the 2nd inning on only six pitches thanks to an inning-ending double play. He gave up a walk and a two-out double in the 3rd but was able to get Andrew Benintendi to lineout to second to strand the runners.

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That double proved to be a warning shot from the White Sox offense. Andrew Vaughn led off the 4th a solo home run that he crushed into the center field bleachers. After Lenyn Sosa slashed a single the other way into right, Dominic Fletcher golfed a low curveball over the flag court and around the foul pole for a two-run homer that gave Chicago a 4-1 lead. The South Sider would chase Suárez from the game in the 5th after Lopez led off the inning with a single and then scored on a Luis Robert double.

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