The White Sox spent the day in the headlines as analysts and fans across the country wondered if their situation was hopeless enough to merit selling off all their valuables in hopes of a viable future. But by nightfall, the vestiges of their once sincere pursuit of the playoffs took centerstage once again, as James […]
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The White Sox are done
Maybe this declarative headline is just for posterity, since the dimming playoff picture for the Sox has been increasingly apparent for weeks now, and is simply impossible to ignore now after a dismal 1-5 west coast road trip to start the second half, which came on the heels of home series loss to the tanking […]
Mariners 6, White Sox 5: Sox terrorized by Leonys Martin, own bullpen
The Seattle Mariners might be selling. They’re hanging around .500 aimlessly, are 5.5 games back from the Wild Card with four teams in front of them and even farther out of the AL West, and they just swung a trade to send reliever Mike Montgomery to the Cubs for Dan Vogelbach, with others involved. And yet […]
South Side Morning 5: Jose Quintana is the same guy
1. This year has been marketed as Jose Quintana’s breakout season by many, including myself and others on this blog. It is and isn’t. His 3.13 ERA would be a career-low if he held onto it through the end of the season, the dearth of elite AL pitching has pushed him to the head of […]
White Sox 6, Mariners 1: Somehow, someway, miraculously, a game is won
The White Sox only post-All-Star break victory belongs to Jose Quintana. After Chris Sale was thoroughly Quintana’d by the White Sox bullpen — or more specifically, David Robertson — in an agonizing loss on Monday, Quintana picked up essentially right where he left off in the first half on Tuesday. The All-Star pitched around a […]
Mariners 4, White Sox 3: Wasting Chris Sale
A Chris Sale beauty was chucked into the trash can tonight. You can scrounge in the dumpster if you like, but it you’re unlikely to find it. It’s gone. It’s lost. Scoring multiple runs may greatly increase your chances of winning baseball games, but turns out the winning formula is still to score more runs than […]
South Side Morning 5: Runs needed
1. Doubts about Todd Frazier‘s ability to maintain his performance over the second half of the season will not be resolved until he pieces together his first set of post-All Star break splits that are superior to his first half in his career. But he certainly didn’t get off to a good start this weekend by going […]
Angels 8, White Sox 1: Uh…hmmrph
The White Sox were probably always going to lose this game. The already meager starting pitching depth of the Charlotte Knights has been picked clean, and even with that, Anthony Ranaudo pitched Thursday, so the Sox didn’t even have the option of picking their best Triple-A starter to fill in for the injured Carlos Rodon. […]
Angels 1, White Sox 0: Maybe get some runs someday?
Thanks–or no thanks–to the deadball era, and nearly 150 years of Major League Baseball’s existence, we’re far from the threshold where the White Sox current scoring ineptitude would approach any kind of historical level. Three-straight shutouts against bad teams, 32 consecutive scoreless innings, all are just the mundane struggles of a .500 team slipping into […]
Angels 7, White Sox 0: A listless performance against an old friend
Shiny new toys Justin Morneau and Carson Fulmer joined the White Sox as they began the unofficial second half of the season Friday against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. And the new Sox got front row seats to watch an old Sox, Hector Santiago, completely shut down his former team in a 7-0 Angels’ […]