Los Angeles Angels at Chicago White Sox

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Los Angeles Angels

0-1, 0-1 Away

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Chicago White Sox

1-0, 1-0 Home

Burke stars as Venable gets 1st win with the White Sox in an 8-1 victory over the Angels

Miguel Vargas' 2-run double pads the White Sox's lead

Andrew Benintendi, Lenyn Sosa and Austin Slater homered as Chicago began what it hopes will be a more promising season than a year ago, when it went 41-121 to break the post-1900 major league record for losses.

Venable, 42, stepped into a challenging rebuilding project when he was hired in October. The former big league outfielder was an associate manager for Texas the past two years.

Yusei Kikuchi (0-1) pitched six innings of three-run ball in his Los Angeles debut. The Japanese left-hander signed a $63 million, three-year contract with the Angels in free agency.

Los Angeles lost on opening day for the 11th time in the last 12 years, including four in a row.

Burke (1-0) allowed three hits, struck out three and walked none. Penn Murfee, Jordan Leasure and Mike Clevinger combined for three scoreless innings before Logan O'Hoppe homered for the Angels against Cam Booser in the ninth.

After Ryan Johnson was hit hard in his big league debut for the Angels, infielder Nicky Lopez got the final out of the eighth in his first game with Los Angeles.

Key moment With Chicago leading 3-0 in the eighth, Clevinger replaced Leasure with runners at the corners and two outs. The right-hander walked Mike Trout before striking out Jorge Soler, ending the inning.

Key stat Kikuchi is one of a major league-record three Japanese-born pitchers who started on opening day this year, joining Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers and Shota Imanaga of the Cubs.

Up next Following an off day, right-handers José Soriano and Jonathan Cannon take the mound on Saturday. Soriano made 20 starts and two relief appearances for Los Angeles last year, going 6-7 with a 3.42 ERA. Cannon had a 4.49 ERA over 124 1/3 innings during his rookie season with Chicago in 2024.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Paris struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Paris hit for Adell
	9th Inning	O'Hoppe homered to left (417 feet).
	9th Inning	Rengifo struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Tim Anderson struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Booser relieved Clevinger

Statistics

LAA		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	11
10	Strikeouts	6
1	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	8
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
13	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
141	Pitches	130
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
9	Total Bases	20
35	Plate Appearances	35
162.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	5
1.9	Runs Created	6.3
.156	Batting Average	.273
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.281	Slugging Percentage	.606
.188	Secondary Average	.394
.229	On Base Percentage	.314
.510	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.920
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
1.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.1
14.0	Batter Rating	54.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	11.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.71
.125	Isolated Power	.333
0.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.057	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.057
.031	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.121
2.0	Runs Produced	16.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
66.5	MLB Rating	97.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0