White Sox Spoil Chris Paddack's Marlins Debut Leading to First Loss

Miami FL – The Marlins never had a chance against the visiting Chicago White Sox on Monday.

After two strong innings from newly acquired Chris Paddack, everything fell apart. Paddack cruised through the first two innings with four strikeouts and two scoreless frames. Then in the top of the third the White Sox offense picked up where they left off in Milwaukee. With two outs, Miguel Vargas hit an RBI single and Austin Hays followed it up with a three-run homer to make it 4-0.

In the top of the fourth, the Sox added four more as Paddack got hit around by the bottom of the order, leading to a Miguel Vargas grand slam that put the game well out of reach.

The Marlins bullpen only allowed 1 run in 5 innings to continue their hot start to the season as Lake Bachar, John King, and Michael Peterson finished up the last five frames.

Offensively, the Marlins scratched across four runs, much in thanks to the top of the order today as Jakob Marsee, Xavier Edwards, and Liam Hicks all had two-hit ball games. Hicks homered in the bottom of the fourth and later hit an RBI single as he was the Marlins’ most productive player tonight.

The performance from Paddack was most certainly disappointing, especially as the Marlins brought him along with the hopes of returning him to some of his previous form and making him a usable back-of-the-rotation starter. It is too early to make any judgments, but an 8 spot is just not good (No walks and six strikeouts are a positive however).

Paddack will need to be better than this going forward as the Marlins have multiple young prospects waiting for their big-league opportunity.

The Marlins will tee it up with the White Sox again tomorrow with Janson Junk on the hill against Erick Fedde, a good chance to even the series.