Good morning! Dylan Cease keeps making history, as he allowed just one earned run against the Royals on Thursday afternoon, thus extending his record-setting streak of allowing one or zero runs to fourteen consecutive starts. Since his run began on…
Good morning! As noted around these parts many-a-time, August is the month when Jose Abreu finds another gear and is nigh-unstoppable. Out of curiosity, I looked at his splits for the month of August over his career (as I write…
Good morning! Last Sunday finally saw Minnie Miñoso inducted into the Hall of Fame, much to the delight of all. I don’t know that there’s much that I can add to the accolades, but I’m always struck by the thought…
Good morning! Major League Baseball sure packed a heck of a lot of activity into the past week, what with both the All-Star game taking place on Tuesday and the draft a couple of days before that. Because both took…
Good morning! When Luis Robert hit a grand slam in Thursday evening’s blowout win over the Twins, it marked the first grand slam a player has hit for the White Sox this season. With that grand slam, the White Sox…
Good morning! Something I certainly didn’t anticipate Sporcling about this season was the White Sox and their lack of offensive firepower. As I was commuting to work on Friday morning, I was thinking about how Abreu was the only guy…
Good morning! Entering Friday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants, the White Sox currently have two players with double-digit steal totals: Luis Robert (11) and Tim Anderson (10). Adam Engel is next with 9, then the list drops down…
Good morning! During Thursday afternoon’s loss to the Blue Jays, defensive changes during the late innings led three-quarters of the lineup playing out of position due to the Haseley-Mendick debacle/the neverending plague of soft tissue issues. Seby Zavala moved to…
Good morning! With the White Sox winning 5-1 on Tuesday evening, Dylan Cease continued his dominance over the Detroit Tigers, improving to 10-0 in eleven starts against them in his young career. Further, he sports a shiny 1.91 ERA to…
Good morning! It was on this day in 1937 that the White Sox threw Zeke Bonura Day. From the New York Times the next day: They gave Zeke Bonura an automobile as Chicago’s ‘most popular player’ today, and the big…