First Pitch: White Sox vs. Royals

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funkerdan

What’s the hat being used in this game? I missed the significance.

Adam

It’s the Armed Forces hat. Pretty sweet

funkerdan

I thought probably but they weren’t showing the patch on the side in a still as everyone was moving quickly. Thanks!

Adam

Kopech looking great early. High velo, lots of life, aggressive. Keep it going!

Right Size Wrong Shape

Gavin Sheets, what are you doing?

Foulkelore

TOOTBLAN is what he’s doing. You have to know and watch the runner ahead of you. I knew right away they were going to have to hold Vaughn on that.

Right Size Wrong Shape

All of Sheets’s crappy baserunning from last season is coming back to me now.

a-t

Bad baserunning by Sheets, but also really great play by Grienke. Very few if any pitchers have the presence of mind to cut that ball off at all let alone nail a guy too far off 2nd.

funkerdan

Lynn would never be in the right spot. I’m sour on his defense.

Adam

Excellent ab for Romy. 2-1 count, gets a fastball but it’s low in the zone so he spits on it. Then he gets something he can drive on 2-2 and gets the job done. Bravo!!

I’m very critical of sox hitters who swing at bad strikes in hitters counts. Way too often. So this might be the happiest I’ve been lately with a sac fly.

Denman

Against my inclination to doubt the White Sox when it comes to drafting and player development, I’m beginning to believe that Sheets and Burger are legit major league players.

a-t

Robert not stealing the RF’s ball for once, but he def thought about it

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funkerdan

We aren’t playing a RF, so he should have.

a-t

crazy how simply throwing that fastball 95-98 in the zone means success

Adam

Most frustrating part with the entire staff. The stuff is amazing. Enough with the walks. Get aggressive. Couldn’t possibly be worse

a-t

Kopech’s not trying to nibble, his mechanics are simply inconsistent enough that he’s trying to throw strikes and they’re noncompetitive pitches instead

Denman

Sheets flew out but the way he worked that at bat suggests the trio of hitting coaches may be getting through to some of the players.

Foulkelore

Kopech is … not bad through 5.

Denman

I know it is only the Royals, but with 5 innings of no-hit ball, zero walks and 7 strikeouts, Kopech is proving that he can be a capable starter.

funkerdan

we lost 3/4 of the last series. so.. “only” is an understatement for us sox.

As Cirensica

So Kopech should pitch always with an extra day of rest?

funkerdan

try it until it fails. and even then… try it some more

As Cirensica

Oooops

Right Size Wrong Shape

I mentioned unlikable Guardians the other day. I don’t know anything about him, but there’s something I just can’t stand about that guy.

He’s a Guardian. That’s enough for me.

BillyKochFanClub

The 2023 Guardians have a very 2022 White Sox feel.

As Cirensica

I have seen better ar bats from pitchers than that strike out by Romy

funkerdan

so…he should become a pitcher?

Right Size Wrong Shape

I can’t get on him too much there. He watched the guy not be able to get the ball over the plate the previous inning, so leading off the next inning he takes two pitches – which just happen to be perfect pitches. The last swing was bad.

As Cirensica

Where was this Kopech before?

Right Size Wrong Shape

Can we please have Joe Kelly close this thing if Kopech doesn’t finish it himself? If he brings in Lopez I’m going to lose my mind.

funkerdan

Will you accept death hole male genitalia?

Foulkelore

Graveman should split the difference between those two.