CHICAGO – Eloy Jimenez promised there would be better days ahead after handling the nerves of his hitless home debut Friday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field. And the rookie left fielder was true to his word as one of the team’s bright spots in a 9-2 loss to Seattle Saturday.

Jimenez singled in the second, singled in the fourth and then singled again in the sixth for the first three-hit game of his career. The No. 3 prospect overall per MLB Pipeline continues looking for his first career extra-base hit, but his power should come in bunches once he continues to adjust to opposing pitchers.

“Yeah, I’m trying to get comfortable first. I don’t worry about the home runs, because I know they are going to come. I’m just worrying about taking good at-bats and [getting] good pitches to hit,” said Jimenez after the White Sox two-game winning streak came to an end. “I’m feeling better at the plate. Better with all the speed of the game.”

“He's a ballplayer,” said shortstop Tim Anderson of Jimenez. “You know what he's capable of doing and I think he's going to be just fine and he's going to be killing the baseball like he's been doing.”

Through seven games, Jimenez has seen 119 pitches. Sixty-five of those have been off-speed, per Statcast, meaning 55 percent. Jimenez said being patient and trying to see the pitch up is the key in handling this sort of repertoire thrown at him.

White Sox manager Rick Renteria talked before the game about getting Jimenez to slow down a bit and stay within his strike zone, adding Jimenez has a really good eye at the plate. Jimenez got the ball up Saturday and had a trio of positive outcomes.

“He put the bat on the ball,” Renteria said. “As long as he's not trying to do too much, once balls are in manageable zones for him, he'll be fine. Not only will he find singles, I think he'll drive the ball as well.

“So, if we can just get him back to slowing the game down a little bit, truly trusting his approach, keeping balls up out over the plate that he can handle and allow himself to be who he is. It takes a little time. And hopefully it's sooner rather than later.”

Lucas Giolito, who allowed five runs on six hits over 4 1/3 innings Saturday, has dealt with the pressure of being a top-rated pitching prospect in the game. Anderson, who had three hits, including his second home run, and is now 10-for-20 on the season, also has adjusted to life as the one-time top prospect in the White Sox system.

Although there’s a different set of expectations attached to Jimenez as an everyday player with a national profile, advice from his teammates on coping with the pressure still rings true.

“You’re human. Keep playing,” Anderson said. “He fits right in.”

“Turn it off. Put that out of your mind,” Giolito said. “Baseball is baseball. There’s a little bit of a process when you get up here, just getting used to how things are, the travel and everything like that. But Eloy is a special talent. He’s going to be just fine. We’ll be seeing him start to mash balls a lot here soon.”

There also might be a few stolen bases in Jimenez’s future. He asked Renteria about not getting the green light to run so far in 2019, and Renteria told Jimenez before Saturday’s game to chase down fly balls moving laterally in left or come in to make a catch and then they could talk.

Jimenez made both of those plays in the Seattle loss.

“I’m going to start doing it,” said a smiling Jimenez. “Catchers be ready for that. And like I said, I can steal a couple of bases.”