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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Chicago White Sox faded from the postseason with hardly any offense.
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Sox → fade → offense
After winning the first two games of their best-of-five AL Division Series against Cleveland, Chicago struck out 21 times and managed just three hits in a 2-0 defeat Saturday night that advanced the Guardians to an AL Championship Series matchup against Tampa Bay.
“We wanted it so bad, it hurts,” Chicago catcher Kyle Teel said, shaking his head.
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Teel → win → head
José Ramírez hit a two-run homer off Sean Burke in the fourth inning, and the White Sox became the fourth team in major league history to lose a Division Series after winning the first two games on the road.
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Sox → hit → road
Munetaka Murakami and Andrew Benintendi struck out four times each, and Teel and Chase Meidroth three times apiece.
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Murakami → strike → ?
“My intent was to win this game, win this series and fly to Tampa,” White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami said through interpreter Kenzo Yagi.
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Murakami → win → Yagi
“It’s obviously disappointing.
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It → ’ → ?
Chicago become the first team to each the playoffs after three straight 100-loss seasons.
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Chicago → become → seasons
The White Sox swept Houston in the wild card round for their first postseason series win since their 2005 World Series championship.
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Sox → sweep → championship
Ramírez homered on a a knuckle-curve from Burke that was 0.74 feet above the ground.
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that → homer → ground
“He made the right pitch in the right spot,” Teel said.
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Teel → make → spot
“It was a ball in the dirt and he just hit it out.”
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he → hit → it
The pitch Ramírez homered on was the the lowest hit for a home run in a postseason game since MLB Statcast started tracking in 2008.
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Statcast → homer → 2008
“Obviously, it came down to one pitch and one mistake I made today,” Baker said.
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Baker → come → pitch
“He’s a really good player.
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He → ’ → ?
He’s probably going to be in the Hall of Fame some day.
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He → go → Fame
But it’s frustrating.”
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it → ’ → ?
Chicago outscored Cleveland 7-3 in the first two games and out-hit the Guardians 12-7.
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Chicago → outscore → Guardians
Over the final three games, Cleveland had a 20-8 advantage in runs and out-hit the White Sox 27-17.
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Cleveland → have → Sox
“We’re all bummed and sad, knowing we probably should have got the job done,” Chicago shortstop Colton Montgomery said.
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Montgomery → ’re → ?
“They dug deep and did what they did.
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they → dig → what
That’s a good baseball team and they scrapped it out.”
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they → ’ → it
Chicago batters struck out a Division Series record 75 times and hit .194 with runners in scoring position, going 1 for 18 in the last two games.
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batters → strike → games
The White Sox loaded the bases in the sixth inning before Erik Sabrowski relieved Williams and struck out Murakami.
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Sabrowski → load → Murakami
“The last few games, there were some opportunities,” Meidroth said.
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Meidroth → be → ?
“It stings because this is a family, a brotherhood we have here.
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we → sting → ?
We wanted to win for each other and for our fans.
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We → want → fans
Man, there is no better place to play than Chicago and we wanted to keep going.”
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we → be → Chicago
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