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 afternoon. Instead, with Shane Smith’s aggressive fastball-centered attack meeting a patient Rays’ team approach, there were a lot of long at-bats, but none of them ended in a hit with Simpson on base until the eight inning when the Sox were already up five runs.
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