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White Sox 7, Indians 3: On Chris Sale Day, Avisail steals the spotlight

There was some symbolic evidence that Saturday was not meant for baseball to be played in Chicago. Grounds crews spent much of the morning hosing down the outfield to melt the standing snow, and stadium staff had less luck elsewhere. The effort to clear snow kept the gates closed until 35 minutes before the first […]

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South Side Morning 5: Next stop, World Series

1. “The last time the #WhiteSox were 3-1 they won the 2005 World Series.” -Bob Nightengale. Well, then. Those are the stakes. 2. Mat Latos didn’t really have no-hit stuff Thursday afternoon, numbers aside. Low-90s with a loopy curve and five swings-and-misses in 88 pitches doesn’t scream “breakthrough,” but Latos’ rave reviews for his battery-mate were […]

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South Side Morning 5: Life atop the AL Central

1. MLB careers are fickle and end brutally, and when they don’t, they can linger and stagger along as empty shells like post-injury John Danks. Point being, it’s nice to have new affirmation in a new season that everything still works; that Jose Quintana‘s combination of low-90s heat and average or better stuff continues to play […]

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South Side Morning 5: The White Sox are undefeated

1. You could almost hear the music from the White Sox Monday night. Chris Sale was so clean and efficient rounding out a seven-inning, three-run effort, it could almost completely drown out the static of him overthrowing for the first three frames and an ugly, snowballing third inning. Nate Jones‘ finishing move to close out […]

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South Side Morning 5: Opening Day

1. Chris Sale faces Sonny Gray in the best pitching matchup of Opening Day. I am aware of the Corey Kluber-David Price game, I looked them all up before I did this and decided to double down on this claim for my baseball connoisseur cred. The game played at 10:00pm EDT in a dimly-lit Dungeon […]

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Early season scheduling considerations

The nitty gritty elements of baseball are back. With the beginning of the White Sox season, returned are the days of passing notes like “The team plane didn’t land until 3:00am last night,” and “looking for Chris Sale to go deep into the game after his bullpen covered seven innings yesterday,” and “it’s closer-by-committee today […]