1. Chicago White Sox
The bullpen of the Chicago White Sox had a very unmemorable day and one every White Sox fan would love to forget as soon as possible. Their performance allowed the Kansas City Royals to set a team record by having a seven-run, one-out rally in the bottom of the ninth inning to knock the White Sox out of first place in the division with a 8-7 win.
KC was the home team and with one out in the bottom of the ninth took complete control of the game by taking full advantage of the White Sox bullpen implosion with the ninth inning seeing two pitchers in closer David Robertson and reliever Tommy Kahnle not get the job done whatsoever.
Robertson entered the game without a save on the line as the White Sox were up by six runs. In 0.2 innings he allowed the Royals to score six runs on four hits and two walks, resulting in his worst outing of the season, seeing his ERA increase to 3.72.
That wasn’t it for the White Sox because Kahnle couldn’t force extra innings with his pitching, as the Royals scored their walk-off game winning run off him, with the reliever allowing one run on two hits and two walks.
In all Robinson threw 29 pitches (16 for strikes) as he faced a total of eight batters in his 0.2 innings pitched. Kahnle failed to record an out against the four batters he faced, finishing with 22 pitches, just 10 for strikes.
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Sadly even though White Sox fans want to forget this performance it will be very tough to do so, as it was especially bad, as the pitching staff wasn’t managed the best and the result for that Saturday showed.