Giolito continues to add to strikeout total in White Sox's loss

There was the American Pitcher of the Month honor in May, the All-Star Game in July, the constant Cy Young talk, and the more realistic Comeback Player of the Year presentation after the season.

White Sox starting pitcher Lucas Giolito has been both thrilled and humbled by all of the perks during his breakout season, but he never set 20 wins as a primary goal.

"There's only so much you can control when it comes to that," Giolito said. "Pitcher wins are very much a team stat."

It looked like the Sox's right-hander was going to pick up his 15th win Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Exiting the game after 7 strong innings, Giolito and the White Sox were leading 4-2.

The Angels tied in the eighth on Brian Goodwin's 2-run homer off Aaron Bummer, and Justin Upton's solo shot off closer Alex Colome in the ninth inning lifted Los Angeles to a 5-4 win.

"The back end of the bullpen has done an outstanding job all year," said acting Sox manager Joe McEwing. "Can't say enough about how much they've kept us in games and allowed us to win games throughout the course of the year. (Bummer and Colome) both have nasty stuff and they (Angels) capitalized on a few mistakes."

With 6 strikeouts Giolito raised his season total to 216, which ranks eighth in franchise history.

"It's pretty cool," he said. "I knew there was a high strikeout pitcher in there somewhere. I just had to make the necessary adjustments to get it to come out. It feels good that I'm putting together a season like this."

On the mend:

White Sox manager Rick Renteria had surgery Friday to repair the rotator cuff in his right shoulder.

He is expected to miss the final two games of the Sox-Angels series and could be back in the dugout Tuesday when the Royals come in for a three-game series at Guaranteed Rate Field.

"He's doing well, he's doing really well," said bench coach Joe McEwing, who is managing the White Sox in Renteria's absence. "Everything went according to plan. He's recovering now."

Renteria was going to wait until the offseason to have the shoulder repaired, but the pain became unbearable.

"It got to the point where it hurt pretty bad, keeping him up at night," McEwing said. "Just certain movements would hurt. Shaking hands. Simple little things we take for granted every day. We told him, 'Get it done. Don't go through the pain. Get it done now. Recover. We got you.'"

Shirley promoted:

After joining the White Sox in a part-time capacity in 2000 and working his way up the ladder, Mike Shirley was named director of amateur scouting on Friday.

Shirley, 49, replaces Nick Hostetler, who was promoted to special assistant to general manager Rick Hahn in July.

"Nineteen years of doing this, it's been a truly rewarding experience for me," Shirley said. "I think everybody needs to understand, I started as a part-time scout, I was an area scout. I know what it feels like to drive the back roads, to grind, what all area scouts go through every day."