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NEW YORK — Chicago White Sox ace Davis Martin conceded “things kind of unraveled pretty quickly” in Tuesday’s 12-2 loss to the New York Yankees.
Some defensive lapses by Chase Meidroth and Jacob Gonzalez opened the door to a four-run second inning, and Martin never recovered.
He left after retiring only one batter in the six-run fourth inning of what turned out to be the biggest drubbing the Sox have taken since opening day, when they lost 14-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers.
“It’s not like this is some random stadium,” Martin said. “This is New York. This is a hard place to play. It’s a great place for us to learn how to play in big-time spots on the road. We have dreams and aspirations of making the playoffs this year, and you don’t play all those games at home. We’ve got to learn how to win on the road. It’s a process. It’s June. Continue to learn and make these adjustments and learn now so we can be ready to go come September or October.”
Sox infielder Luisangel Acuña pitched the eighth inning, lobbing 40 mph curves, including one that José Caballero took out for the Yankees’ fourth home run.
“Obviously, some things in there we have to clean up,” Sox manager Will Venable said.
Martin (9-3) was charged with nine runs on eight hits and three walks over 3 1/3 innings, watching his earned run average soar from 2.41 to 3.31. Only three starts ago, Martin had a 2.00 ERA, but stinkers against the Minnesota Twins and Yankees sandwiched a start in which he threw six shutout innings in a win against the Atlanta Braves.
Venable called Tuesday’s outing “an aberration.” Martin said he wasn’t worried about rebounding in his next start.
“I’ve done it once before after the Twins outing, and I can do it again,” he said. “This start by no means defines me or my season.”
Tuesday’s performance, in which he gave up home runs to Spencer Jones, Ben Rice and Paul Goldschmidt, was by far his worst of the season.
The Sox offense didn’t help matters. After Andrew Benintendi’s solo home run off Gerrit Cole with two outs in the first, they were held hitless until Tristan Peters singled leading off the sixth. By that point it didn’t matter, as the Sox were trailing 11-1.
The unraveling began in the third when Meidroth couldn’t make a tag at second on a sliding J.C. Escarra, who wound up with a double. Gonzalez then strayed too far to his right to try fielding Anthony Volpe’s grounder to second, leaving Meidroth with no one to throw to at first on an infield hit.
“Learning experience,” Venable said of Gonzalez, a shortstop still learning to play first base. “He probably won’t do that again. He’ll learn from it.”
But Martin couldn’t pick them up. He lost control and the game, giving up a run-scoring single to Cody Bellinger and three walks the rest of the inning.
“I pride myself in, if guys are going to pick me up, I’ve got to pick them up,” Martin said. “That’s why the biggest frustration is losing the zone there a little bit, trying to get nit-picky. I looked at (Meidroth) and nodded my head like ‘I’ve got you,’ and it just didn’t work out tonight. Most nights I feel like I’m going to pick them up. Same with (Gonzalez). It’s just a bad night. Go to sleep. Wake up. New day tomorrow.”
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Some defensive lapses by Chase Meidroth and Jacob Gonzalez opened the door to a four-run second inning, and Martin never recovered.
He left after retiring only one batter in the six-run fourth inning of what turned out to be the biggest drubbing the Sox have taken since opening day, when they lost 14-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers.
“It’s not like this is some random stadium,” Martin said. “This is New York. This is a hard place to play. It’s a great place for us to learn how to play in big-time spots on the road. We have dreams and aspirations of making the playoffs this year, and you don’t play all those games at home. We’ve got to learn how to win on the road. It’s a process. It’s June. Continue to learn and make these adjustments and learn now so we can be ready to go come September or October.”
Sox infielder Luisangel Acuña pitched the eighth inning, lobbing 40 mph curves, including one that José Caballero took out for the Yankees’ fourth home run.
“Obviously, some things in there we have to clean up,” Sox manager Will Venable said.
Martin (9-3) was charged with nine runs on eight hits and three walks over 3 1/3 innings, watching his earned run average soar from 2.41 to 3.31. Only three starts ago, Martin had a 2.00 ERA, but stinkers against the Minnesota Twins and Yankees sandwiched a start in which he threw six shutout innings in a win against the Atlanta Braves.
Venable called Tuesday’s outing “an aberration.” Martin said he wasn’t worried about rebounding in his next start.
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“I’ve done it once before after the Twins outing, and I can do it again,” he said. “This start by no means defines me or my season.”
Tuesday’s performance, in which he gave up home runs to Spencer Jones, Ben Rice and Paul Goldschmidt, was by far his worst of the season.
The Sox offense didn’t help matters. After Andrew Benintendi’s solo home run off Gerrit Cole with two outs in the first, they were held hitless until Tristan Peters singled leading off the sixth. By that point it didn’t matter, as the Sox were trailing 11-1.
The unraveling began in the third when Meidroth couldn’t make a tag at second on a sliding J.C. Escarra, who wound up with a double. Gonzalez then strayed too far to his right to try fielding Anthony Volpe’s grounder to second, leaving Meidroth with no one to throw to at first on an infield hit.
“Learning experience,” Venable said of Gonzalez, a shortstop still learning to play first base. “He probably won’t do that again. He’ll learn from it.”
But Martin couldn’t pick them up. He lost control and the game, giving up a run-scoring single to Cody Bellinger and three walks the rest of the inning.
“I pride myself in, if guys are going to pick me up, I’ve got to pick them up,” Martin said. “That’s why the biggest frustration is losing the zone there a little bit, trying to get nit-picky. I looked at (Meidroth) and nodded my head like ‘I’ve got you,’ and it just didn’t work out tonight. Most nights I feel like I’m going to pick them up. Same with (Gonzalez). It’s just a bad night. Go to sleep. Wake up. New day tomorrow.”
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