PITTSBURGH — There’s nothing like a benches-clearing incident to get the juices flowing, and the one Sunday after Pirates baserunner Oneil Cruz’s clunky slide into White Sox catcher Seby Zavala got everyone who was involved amped up.
It got Cruz seriously hurt — he suffered a fractured left ankle on his straight-ahead slide in the sixth inning that upset Zavala and the rest of the Sox — but it did nothing to perk up a Sox lineup that entering the day had been one of the best in the majors at piling up hits and runs.
