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Grant Taylor Steals Show with 4-Inning Save, Setting Tone for White Sox to Start ALDS
Taylor allowed two hits and struck out six while finishing a bullpen-heavy White Sox win, their 31st opener use this season.
- On Saturday, the Chicago White Sox defeated the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 in Game 1 of the American League Division Series, with Munetaka Murakami's 440-foot, two-run home run and five pitchers combining to limit Cleveland to three hits.
- Chicago's bullpen, which led the majors with 766 innings this year, employed a strategy that set a major-league record with 214 relief appearances of 1 1/3 innings or more, enabling the dominant performance at Progressive Field.
- Grant Taylor, a 24-year-old right-hander, threw four scoreless innings to earn his first career postseason save, striking out six batters and allowing only two hits while retiring the Guardians' 2-3-4 hitters with ease.
- White Sox manager Will Venable praised his players' execution, saying "You go out and you have a rough plan and then the players have to go out and execute," while Guardians manager Stephen Vogt noted his team "fought and battled" despite the shutout.
- Game 2 is scheduled for Monday afternoon at Progressive Field, with Cleveland right-hander Gavin Williams expected to start; Chicago has not announced a starter, though RHP Sean Burke is anticipated to pitch the bulk of the innings.
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Column: Grant Taylor and the Chicago White Sox relievers keep doing ‘our little thing’ in Game 1 win
Grant Taylor and four other Chicago White Sox pitchers combined for a 3-0 shutout Saturday, allowing just three hits and striking out 12 Cleveland Guardians in Game 1 of the ALDS.
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Grant Taylor caps White Sox' latest bullpen game with four-inning save
What the Sox are doing with their pitching staff isn’t normal. For normal teams — you know, teams with a rotation — the starting pitcher goes, say, five, maybe even (gasp) six innings. It does happen.
·Chicago, United States
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