First Pitch: White Sox vs. Angels
TV: NBC Sports Chicago
Lineups:
TV: NBC Sports Chicago
Lineups:
Today's #WhiteSox starters vs. the Angels: pic.twitter.com/9uqp8NhHtp
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 31, 2023
A mid-morning series finale ☀️
— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) May 31, 2023
📺: @BallySportWest
📻: @AngelsRadioKLAA #GoHalos x @FBMSupply pic.twitter.com/Psuw8Y4w8x
Writing about the White Sox for a 16th season, first here, then at South Side Sox, and now here again. Let’s talk curling.
Lynn doing what Lynn does.
It’s a bummer they only got one run from their one-allotted scoring inning.
Day game….ugh
Thankfully the A’s exist or we would be dead last in home runs allowed.
Not sure I like Lance’s solution to the accusation that he walks too many guys
I’d rather see Scholtens
No shit…You might have a point.
That unraveled quickly. Lynn ERA is a tad bit over 6. It is June. This is not a small sample. This is just not good.
This is what washed looks like
Yeah.. I think he is done. Toast. Cooked. Keuchelized. That we keep trotting him every five days is just because we don’t have any other option. Perhaps when Clevinger returns, use Scholtens, and move Lynn to long relief? I don’t know. He can’t keep pitching for a major league team anymore.
Among qualifying pitchers, Lance Lynn has the 2nd worst ERA. Only Jordan Lyles is worst. The most disheartening thing from this list of horrid ERAs is that Dylan Cease is the 9th worst😨
Which takes me back to a point I made in April, the largest problem this team have is pitching. The offense is OK even if at times it does not seem to be able to hit the Jordan Lyles of the world.
Amazing how players don’t seem to do as well when not facing the Guardians or Royals. A total mystery.
WOW…Lynn is still pitching? I am barely following the game thru espn gamecast
Why waste a bullpen arm.
Speaking of waste, why is Scholtens pitching now?
They are reactivating Clevinger for Friday
And keeping Scholtens in line to take on next Lynn’s start. Makes sense.
Lynn to the IL with an inflamed ERA…
If throwing bp wasn’t enough, walk enough hitters so you have to face Trout and Ohtani every inning.
My biggest issue with Sox pitching, they never walk the big guys. Walk Trout and Ohtani! It’s always the bottom guys so the big guns hit with runners on
Was Keuchel this bad at the end? We can’t keep running this out there. It’s a joke.
Keuchel was significantly worse.
Lynn’s game scores for this season (including today): 57,15, 56, 32, 42, 59, 50, 23, 62, 60, 58, and 16. That’s a mean of 44.17 and a median of 53.
Keuchel’s game scores in 2022 up to the DFA: 48, –2, 51, 35, 52, 59, 23, and 20. That’s a mean of 35.75 and a median of 41.5.
His prior 3 outings he gave up 2 earned or less in each. So I doubt today’s performance means that we will be deprived of the joy of seeing him vs the Yankees next week.
Judge can’t wait
I think he will probably circle that night on his calendar, as “party night”.
I’m tired of this guy. I really am. Everything is up in the zone. Thinks he can beat hitters with rising fastballs. The league has caught on. Do something different.
Jeebus. Four innings, eight runs, all earned, two walks, two men hit by pitch, 89 pitches in four innings. Sure take him out of the rotation, but replace him with who? This is a sad state of affairs.
I propose to replace him with the iPitch machine.
I think one of the reasons our hitters look without energy and apathetic is because we have had way too many games where our starting pitcher put the game away by the 3rd inning. This needs to be Lynn’s last start. Either put him on the “IL” or DFA’ed. This kind of performance is unacceptable. This is not that he has had a couple of bad outings, this is a theme.
The guys know who’s good and who is not. We’ve all been on teams when we know that so and so can’t do it.
Are those distances on the HR’s for real? 461, 425, 459? Those aren’t HRs they are moonshots.
Oh yeah they’re absolute nukes. Shohei’s second was maybe 20 feet from the right center concourse
3 and 4 come up with runners on… and they both whiff. Why do I care so much when they don’t…
Because we are fans. A dwindling population.
Late 70’s formed rock group fronted by Chrissy Hynde and your 2023 Chicago White Sox.
Don’t get me wrong, but the Sox might come back from their next road trip and find out that my city was gone.
Baseball has many problems, and this is one of them. You pay a player a ton of money and all of a sudden he forgets how to play the game. Happens over and over and over. The Sox are far from one of the only teams this happens to. All over the league big money is at home or on the golf course thinking about how good they used to be. NFL has a similar problem, but not nearly as ridiculous. For me, I’m Lance Lynn done. Look to move him and the $. A contender out there will be on the phone very soon. They will fix him. He’s 36. Two young arms please!!!
Some guys get very comfortable when they’ve made the kind of money these guys can get. Who wouldn’t? You can buy pretty much everything you’d want. Villa in Monaco? Sure. Any villa anywhere on the ocean. It’s disgusting to see people not earn their keep.
Wallach’s homer was only 431 feet.
It’s so easy to homer off sox pitchers. It’s amazing. Is that what Grifol brought from kc? Benintendi, Alberto, Tosar, and pitchers who get bombed by the league? I know it should be more on Katz but this is new.
I am not sure it is Katz as much as the “talent” he has to work with.
Burger bomb….because he can.
Lynn’s had it. Nice career. There are just so many pitches in a guy’s arm. Maybe some playful hopeful will take him.