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The Chicago White Sox have a plan to manage Garrett Crochet\'s workload for the rest of the season.

Crochet was removed after he retired the first two batters in the sixth inning of Monday\'s 3-0 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

The 25-year-old threw 91 pitches, 60 for strikes. He threw 85 pitches in his previous start, when he struck out eight in six innings in a 4-1 loss to the Houston Astros.

\"We\'re going to start dwindling his workload down a little bit, and we\'ll manage that correctly,\" Pedro Grifol said. \"But it\'s not something we\'re going to put out and say, \'Here\'s what we\'re doing,\' because nothing in this game is black and white.

\"He might have five innings where he goes 12 pitches or less and we might let him go six or seven innings, even when we\'re trying to minimize his workload. It all depends on what he does.\"

Chicago\'s best pitcher this season, Crochet has already logged 94 1/3 innings -- 40 more than his career high from 2021.

He leads the American League with 130 strikeouts. He is 5-2 with a 1.53 ERA in his past 11 starts.

\"He\'s slowly detraining through the course of the year so he can finish the season,\" Grifol said. \"We\'re not going to detrain him and build him back to the capacity where he was at the start of the season. This is going downhill now. We have to really monitor his workload.\"

Via Associated Press