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Sean Burke is the scheduled starter for Monday, so that answers for now the question of whether he'll stick in the rotation. Colson Montgomery getting a night off is largely workload management, but it's well-timed: he's 3-for-20 with 11 strikeouts over his last six games. The post First pitch: White Sox at Guardians appeared first on Sox Machine. … [Read more...] about First pitch: White Sox at Guardians

The White Sox made sure they wouldn't get shut out for a second straight night, posting a quick run against Parker Messick. The rest of the plan needed work. The White Sox were limited to five hits and a walk over the final eight innings, which allowed a couple of Cleveland homers to hold up as sufficient production with a run to spare. The White Sox are now 2-10 against the … [Read more...] about Guardians 3, White Sox 1: More like Regressive Field

The White Sox need to go 6-9 to avoid their third-straight 100 loss season. Speaking of avoiding a date with destiny, they are also stuck on 61 players used this season; two shy of the franchise record of 63 that was set last year. Kyle Teel is running a 20-game on-base streak, which is tied with Juan Soto and Bo Bichette for the longest active on-base streak in the league. The … [Read more...] about First pitch: White Sox at Guardians

The Rays playoffs hopes aren't so much alive as yet to be declared legally dead. But they fell to 5 1/2 games out of the final Wild Card slot Thursday night, in part because they loaded the bases with no one out in the second, and had two runners in scoring position with one out in the ninth, and couldn't score in either inning of a one-run loss. Those innings alone should … [Read more...] about Pregame notes: Think about this in Cancun

We could probably all stand to think about the 2022 Cleveland Guardians less, but Rays rookie speedster Chandler Simpson has the look of someone designed in a lab to flummox previous iterations of the White Sox defense. His four-hit performance on Thursday, opened by a single and his 40th stolen base of the year, seemed like what used to be the ingredients of a chaotic … [Read more...] about White Sox 5, Rays 1: Shane Smith spearheads Sox seizing season series success