Cannon didn’t get out of the fifth inning, allowing eight hits and five earned runs with four strikeouts and four walks.
There aren’t a lot of current White Sox players who seem assured of sticking around till the next window of contention, but Jonathan Cannon looks like one of those keepers.
The 6-6 right-hander figures to be part of the team’s rotation of the future after allowing one run or fewer in six of his 15 starts in his rookie season.
Sunday was not one of those, as Cannon (2-8) didn’t get out of the fifth inning of a 9-4 loss to the Tigers.
He threw 93 pitches, allowing eight hits and five earned runs with four strikeouts and four walks.
But interim manager Grady Sizemore said Cannon has earned the benefit of the doubt.
“When you’re falling behind, it makes it hard,” Sizemore said. “He fought hard, kept us in the game. But he definitely didn’t have his best stuff, wasn’t as sharp.
“It’s going to happen. He’s been throwing so good for us, I’m not surprised [by] one outing where he just didn’t have a feel for everything.”
While the Sox are carefully monitoring the workload of ace Garrett Crochet in his first season as a starter, there are no similar concerns for Cannon.
