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- Updated: August 12, 2016
KANSAS CITY — With none out and Jarrod Dyson, one of the game’s fastest runners, on third base in the 13th inning of a tie game on Wednesday night, White Sox reliever Dan Jennings had one thought run through his mind on the Kauffman Stadium mound.
“I was angry at myself for making the pitch I did [to Dyson] on a 0-2 count,” said Jennings prior to Thursday’s game, speaking of the leadoff triple he gave up and pitched around. “I just remember coming back, I’m trying to back up the base, so I walk right by him and I’m thinking, ‘All right, now I got to pitch a little bit.’
“That was the only thought. I have to keep the ball close to home plate, whatever I do. Just make pitches. You can make great pitches and bad stuff happens. If I make good pitches and lose the game, then I can live with it. It’s when you make bad pitches and they torch you, that is when you kick yourself.”
Jennings made plenty of good pitches after Dyson’s drive to left-center. He struck out Drew Butera and Alex Gordon on three pitches …
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