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Adrian Houser didn't look like a guy making his White Sox debut on the day he was officially signed. Mere hours after his one-year, $1.35 million deal was announced, Houser delivered six shutout innings, and the White Sox bullpen avoided a late-inning cave-in this time around to snap a five-game skid with the scantest of support. The post White Sox 1, Mariners 0: Adrian’s … [Read more...] about White Sox 1, Mariners 0: Adrian’s house

Appearances can be deceiving. With the way he breezed through his first eight outs on Monday night, Davis Martin looked poised to top his best outing of the season with an even more thunderous triumph. The post Mariners 5, White Sox 1: Homestand opens with a dud appeared first on Sox Machine. … [Read more...] about Mariners 5, White Sox 1: Homestand opens with a dud

When the White Sox try to apply pressure, it often looks a lot like the first inning Sunday, when Chase Meidroth was thrown out by 20 feet while trying to turn Joshua Palacios' soft, shallow lineout into a sacrifice fly. When the White Sox have pressure applied to them, it often looks like the sixth inning, in which a couple of defensive gaffes turned a manageable problem into … [Read more...] about Cubs 6, White Sox 2: Flustered and frustrated

White Sox starter Sean Burke didn't have much fun with his new toys on Saturday, and when his friends with gloves made their presences known, the afternoon at Wrigley Field didn't get any more enjoyable. His seam effects changeup faded arm side, but fluttered belt-high as Pete Crow-Armstrong flicked it center to cap an ultimately decisive four-run Cubs second inning. The first … [Read more...] about Cubs 7, White Sox 3: Unfriendly Confines

In a callback to the extreme absurdities of last year's team, the White Sox entered Friday with a 1-7 record in Shane Smith's starts, despite the whole part where he had a 2.08 ERA over that span. Worse yet, the Rule 5 pick lowered his ERA to 2.05 in the Crosstown Classic opener. And the Sox did more than enough to drop to 1-8 when Smith pitches. The post Cubs 13, White Sox 3: … [Read more...] about Cubs 13, White Sox 3: Troubles at home and hanging sliders spoil Miguel Vargas’ breakout performance