Chris Sale was not at his absolute, truly, very best. Behind his huge strikeout total, his fastball command wavered throughout, his home run problems returned, and aaaaaaalllllll of this is pointless nitpicking since the Sox offense could do nothing at all against Ian Kennedy and the Royals. 1. Absolutely nothing, complete bupkus. Sox bats managed […]
Tag: Melky Cabrera
Royals 6, White Sox 5: Shields got a quality start
In a lot of traditional respects, the White Sox lost a heartbreaker Saturday night. After a thrilling Carlos Rodon start Friday, and Chris Sale set for the finale, they were tantalizingly close to an improbable opportunity to sweep the defending champion Royals, right on the heels of their second series win over a non-Twins AL […]
Let’s appreciate Melky Cabrera
BP South Side seems to have somehow developed some reputation for negativity. A shame! And baffling, given the sunny subject matter. To try to build back our reputation, let’s focus on a good story (all my stories are good, making this easy) about something going right this season. A White Sox problem that has been […]
Tigers 5, White Sox 3: Extra Innings, Extra Disappointment
Coming into today’s game, the White Sox were 5-11 on the season when playing the Tigers. It’s been bad. Almost comically bad, but not quite at that level. Just more tragic, which is the 2016 White Sox season in a nutshell. 1. The game started with bang. On the third pitch of the first at […]
Twins 11, White Sox 3: What are we doing here, guys?
The White Sox are contractually committed to James Shields through 2018, he is unmovable in his current state, and they have plenty of reasons for being invested in his recovery, whatever potential for it there may still be. But as each disaster piles on top of each other, they will be pressed to answer if […]
Twins 8, White Sox 5: Let’s not even pretend to understand what happened
The Twins entered Thursday night’s contest twirling their way through a 13-game losing streak that will probably get frequently referred to when retracing how they lost 100 games in 2016. During said streak, the Twins had allowed 96 runs, or around 7.3 per game. If one wanted to gradually transition a major league team into […]
White Sox 6, Athletics 2: This was how things were supposed to be
Having the 53-70 A’s roll in town is, typically, a good way for everything for operate like it was always supposed. Time was, just a Chris Sale start was enough to make the Sox look like a killer outlet, but holding back his best stuff as he sticks to a conservation plan that begun running […]
White Sox 7, Royals 5: Frazier’s blast, two-out rally carry Sox in extras
White Sox games against Kansas City, and certainly in Kansas City, feel like a nightmare. A specific nightmare, where the impossibly slow villain that you can easily outrun is chasing you, but you keep falling down, repeatedly, and then inexplicably, and then it becomes the rule, and by the time you realize the game is […]
White Sox 6, Tigers 3: Sox rough up Zimmerman to dodge Detroit sweep
Like much of Detroit’s roster, Jordan Zimmerman looks like a troubling asset going forward. He’s owed $92 million through 2020 after this season, and his strikeout rate had collapsed to a career-low 15.2 percent coming into Thursday afternoon’s finale. Despite all this, like much of Detroit’s roster he had been effective in 2016, and healthy […]
White Sox 6, Twins 5: Sox climb back from bullpen meltdown
Despite slumping through 12 lifeless innings Friday, and resting a gimpy Adam Eaton Saturday night, the White Sox offense pounded out 15 hits and staged multiple late-inning rallies to rescue the team from a bullpen meltdown in Minnesota. Who knew? 1. Facing a 5-4 deficit in the ninth with two outs, Melky Cabrera drilled his third […]