CHICAGO _ Late-afternoon starts are a rarity in baseball, and White Sox manager Rick Renteria declined to offer a take before Tuesday's at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Asked about it before the 4:10 p.m. first pitch, he replied: "I will give you my genuinely honest opinion once the game is over. Win, lose or draw, I'll give you my honest opinion."
Renteria's opinion might be clouded after this one, a drab 1-0 loss that dropped the team's record to 5-15.
The manager got tossed after the sixth inning.
After home plate umpire Mike Estabrook rung up Matt Davidson on an 0-2 pitch down and away (NBC Sports Chicago's PITCHCAST showed it out of the strike zone), Renteria took a cue from Davidson and emerged from the dugout. Estabrook appeared to warn him against arguing balls and strikes, but Renteria didn't back down.
After getting ejected for the first time this season and 14th in his career, he went nose-to-nose with the umpire.
Renteria didn't miss much.
The Sox managed just five hits on a day in which the ball wasn't carrying. Yolmer Sanchez appeared to put a charge into a Juan Nicasio pitch in the eighth, but it didn't even reach the warning track.
Chris Volstad and Hector Santiago pitched well for the Sox on "bullpen day," combining for 7 2/3 innings.
But they could not best Seattle lefty Marco Gonzales, who threw six scoreless innings, striking out eight.
The game drew a paid crowd of 10,761 on a gorgeous spring day, less than the 13,614 attendance from Monday night.
