3 takeaways from Chicago White Sox spring training Thursday, including Lance Lynn making quick work of the San Francisco Giants and Andrew Vaughn continuing to make an impression

Starter Lance Lynn struck out three and walked one in two scoreless innings Thursday for the Chicago White Sox in a 3-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants at Scottsdale Stadium.

The Cactus League game was seven innings.

Here are three takeaways from Sox camp.

1. Lance Lynn was ready for a third inning.

Lynn was so comfortable on the mound for his first start of the spring, he wanted to get in a third inning of work.

The right-hander had to settle for two scoreless innings.

“I would have liked to have gone back out,” he said in a conference call. “I asked to go back out, but you know it’s early in spring here. Pitch count wise, (my) last live (batting practice) I was more than I was today so I was looking forward to going back out.

“But they’ve got a plan and we’re in a good spot and everything physically feels good. Looking forward to the next one.”

Lynn struck out Tommy La Stella and Buster Posey in the first inning, and struck out Steven Duggar to end the second.

Lynn allowed just one base runner, a one-out walk to Mike Yastrzemski in the first.

“(It’s) just get out there, get back accustomed to being in a game,” Lynn said of his goals for his first spring game. “It was fun, everything went well, threw all the pitches I needed to throw and on to the next one just to keep building up pitch count.”

Before the game, Sox manager Tony La Russa had a feeling Lynn would pitch well, in part because of the work Lynn has done with pitching coach Ethan Katz and assistant pitching coach Curt Hasler.

“He’s a real pro,” La Russa said. “He takes his bullpens, he concentrates, he gets his work done.”

2. Evan Marshall and Codi Heuer provided relief.

Relievers Evan Marshall and Codi Heuer each pitched one scoreless inning in their first Cactus League game of the spring.

Marshall followed Lynn, and struck out Joe McCarthy and La Stella in a perfect third inning.

Heuer allowed two hits and had one strikeout in the fourth. The training staff checked on the right-hander after he was hit on a comebacker by Brandon Crawford.

Heuer remained in the game and got Jason Vosler to fly out to center to end the inning.

3. Jose Abreu believes Andrew Vaughn is ‘ready to help us at the major-league level.’

Andrew Vaughn singled to right field in the fifth inning Thursday. The team’s top prospect went 1-for-3 with a single against the Giants, and is 2-for-6 with a home run, three RBIs and three walks in three Cactus League games this spring.

Vaughn, 22, is competing for a spot on the roster and is in the mix for the open designated hitter spot.

Earlier in the week, teammate Jose Abreu said he thought Vaughn, the team’s top prospect, was prepared to help the team.

“I’ve been impressed with him since I saw him last summer in summer camp,” Abreu said through an interpreter Tuesday. “When I saw him there, just the way that he worked, just the way that he handled himself, I was impressed and he had a lot of talent. I don’t have any doubt in my mind that he’s ready to play in the majors and ready to help us at the major-league level.

“He’s a guy that respects the game. He’s a guy that works hard and I think those two factors are big factors to have success in the majors. For my part, I know I have to guide him and help him and give him advice to try to make as few mistakes as possible. He will make mistakes because we all make mistakes in the major leagues.

“We just try to minimize those mistakes and that’s going to be my role. Just to try to help him and to guide him, to take advantage of the talent he has and the explore the tools he brings to the table for us. I don’t have any doubt in my mind that he’s ready to play in the majors.”