For fans of teams out of contention late in the year, a lot of September baseball watching is about finding silver linings: young players developing, personal achievements, and really any sign of hope for the coming year. For the White Sox, this month has provided a few such opportunities: Tim Anderson has continued to develop […]
Author: Ethan Spalding
White Sox 8, Indians 1: Imagine If This Were a Playoff Race
For the second consecutive game, the White Sox blew out the first place Cleveland Indians to start a series that months ago seemed likely to be important. Instead, it just lessens Cleveland’s chances of securing home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, and helps keep the hopes of the Sox dramatically finishing the season at .500 alive. […]
Tigers 3, White Sox 2: Shaping the 2016 Wild Card Race
The White Sox have been playing a significant role in the AL Wild Card race over the last week. While they themselves aren’t contending, over their last 7 games they took 3 of 4 from the Mariners, pushing them to the periphery of playoff contention, and now have been swept by the Tigers, allowing them […]
White Sox 4, Mariners 1: Rodon’s hot stretch continues
The White Sox continued their onslaught against the Mariners Sunday, winning 4-1 to bring the season series to 5-3. With the Mariners on the periphery of Wild Card contention along with surging teams such as Detroit, Houston and Kansas City, the White Sox fought hard to ensure that the only AL team with a longer […]
White Sox Baseball: Staying The (Dismal) Course
On the scale of the multi-season baseball winning curve, a single weekend is nearly meaningless, often providing more noise than meaningful information about the league as a whole whole and the teams within. But as the White Sox approached yesterday’s trade deadline at an organizational crossroads, this past weekend certainly felt meaningful. Already described as “mired in mediocrity” […]
White Sox 5, Blue Jays 2: Chris Sale Day ends in series win
When he made his 16th start of the 2015 season, Chris Sale was coming off an eighth consecutive 10-strikeout game, tying an MLB record set by Pedro Martinez 1999. While he didn’t continue his streak, he did twirl a brilliant complete game in a 4-2 victory against the Blue Jays, allowing just two solo home runs while […]
Where do the Sox go from here?
I wanted to believe. I really, really tried to enjoy this White Sox season, and when they started off 23-10, I was full of optimism. And I thought I had reason to be too! Teams that start off as good as the White Sox did tend to do well; a fact that, in retrospect, makes the Sox’ […]
White Sox take Zack Burdi, Alec Hansen with No. 26 and No. 49 picks
After taking University of Miami catcher Zack Collins with their first pick Thursday night, the White Sox doubled up on a pair of college right-handers, taking Zack Burdi and Alec Hansen with the No. 26 and No. 49 picks, respectively. Burdi, a relief pitcher from the University of Louisville and the brother of Twins 2014 […]
White Sox season can still be saved
On the morning of May 10th, the White Sox sat at 23-10, first place in the AL Central by six games with the second-best record in baseball. They had were coming off an 8-4 victory in Texas that was capped by a go-ahead Todd Frazier grand slam in the top of the 12th. Things were looking […]
Tigers 7, White Sox 4: They lost a Sale-Pelfrey matchup
As the White Sox front office moved to bolster their playoff chances by acquiring James Shields from the Padres, their on field staff slightly hurt those chances by falling to the Tigers 7-4 Saturday. Despite what seemed like an obvious mismatch on paper, Mike Pelfrey stymied the White Sox bats and Chris Sale was slightly off […]