It’s typically a good place to be when Chris Sale has the most runs given up by any starter on the team all season, and the Sox’ streak of hot starting pitching survived its greatest test to date as Mat Latos cruised through six innings in Oakland. A go-ahead bomb by Jose Abreu in the […]
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AL Central Rivals Series: Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins
The American League Central certainly has a different landscape than a few seasons ago, and even as recently as a year ago. Though some of these teams may still be finding pieces of confetti in their caps from the latest World Series victory parades and other may be ticking off the days on the calendar […]
Sonny Gray, For Real This Time — Game Preview & Lineups 4/6
Waking up to a “fun fact” indicating that if the White Sox win tonight, they’ll be three games over .500 for the first time since 2012 was a depressing start to my day. Though it’s also a bit surprising that they’ve been as much as two over any time more recently given the teams they’ve been […]
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 […]
The Quid Pro Quo of Shiny New Videoboards
As the White Sox take the field for the home opener this season, new outfield video boards will gleam and sparkle above them, and we will be awed. The video boards will seem in that moment—in all of their high-definition, altitudinous glory—to be money well spent by the state of Illinois. But, in that moment, […]
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 […]
White Sox 4, Athletics 3: And a happy opening day was had by all
A game that saw what should have been a fine pitchers’ duel between Sale and Gray was scrapped before it was even started. A’s ace Sonny Gray came down with food poisoning hours before first pitch in a a contest that ended in a 4-3 White Sox on Opening Night Monday in Oakland. It was hardly the prettiest […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jerry Sands is the 25th man
Just before their exhibition game Friday night in San Diego, the White Sox made an announcement: Jerry Sands has more than a chance, he has a job. For Sands, 28, who has never made an Opening Day roster and has been in and out of the majors for the the last five seasons, it’s a […]