ANAHEIM, Calif. — It wasn’t the best of outings for White Sox left-hander Noah Schultz on Wednesday. He walked the first batter he faced, but worked out of the first inning unscathed.The proverbial roof then caved in during a five-run second that included a three-run Travis d’Arnaud homer as Schultz took his second defeat of the season in an 8-2 loss to the Angels at Angel Stadium. That closed a six-game Sox western road trip at 3-3.Schultz allowed seven runs on seven hits with four walks and two strikeouts before Sox manager Will Venable yanked him with two out in the fourth.“Today it was just a case where they hit some tough pitches,” Venable said. “The homer was a well-located fastball. Four walks. You have to be a lot more aggressive in the zone. It was just one of those days when he got burned on some pitches.”The outing was the antithesis of Schultz’s last one. He opened the road trip this past Friday with oddly an 8-2 win over the Padres at Petco Park in San Diego during which he allowed no runs on two hits in six innings. The walks still plagued him in that game. He had three, two of them in the first inning but pitched out of trouble in that one.No such luck against the Angels on Wednesday. What can he learn from it?“There’s a lot of stuff,” he said. “I can definitely look at some video. Make sure I wasn’t giving away any pitches,…
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