Gage Ziehl’s White Sox organizational debut was unremarkable in one direction or the other. He allowed three runs (two earned) over 4⅓ innings for Winston-Salem in a loss to Greenville on Saturday, but two of those runs scored in his final inning of work, and not on his watch. There aren’t any sweeping judgments to draw, and given that he’s in the back half of his first full professional season, there’s no pressure to draw any conclusions yet.
The same can’t be said for the Yankees, who traded Ziehl to the White Sox for Austin Slater specifically to acquire help hitting left-handed pitching over the final two months of the season before he becomes a free agent again. Slater pulled his left hamstring attempting to beat out a double play ball on Monday, in just his third game with New York. He’ll head to the injured list for the second time this year, although this injury is unrelated to the right meniscus tear he suffered in April.
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