Chicago White Sox manager Pedro Grifol is quickly losing patience with his struggling team, judging by the comments he made Sunday after their latest loss.
The White Sox fell 4-1 to the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, marking their fifth consecutive loss. The team wasted an excellent start by Garrett Crochet by failing to record a hit until the eighth inning, with Danny Mendick’s solo home run providing the only hit and run of the afternoon for Chicago.
Grifol held a closed-door meeting after the game, then went off in profane manner on his players through the media. He characterized their effort as “f—ing flat” and suggested the team had essentially disrespected the game.
“I don’t have much. Crochet pitched his a– off. We got no-hit through eight. We had a pinch-hitter break it up,” Grifol said, via Scott Merkin of MLB.com. “The rest of the guys… Not the rest of the guys. Most of the guys were f—ing flat today. Unacceptable. That’s all I got. Flat. Period. Major League game. Gotta respect it. Pretty simple.”
Not all of Grifol’s players seemed to feel that the criticism was fair. White Sox catcher Korey Lee said Grifol was “entitled to his own opinion,” but that the team “(has) a different feeling.”