Michael Kopech threw a clunker tonight, but if the White Sox imported Dylan Cease’s performance from the previous night, they still probably would’ve lost. The reason I say “probably” is that maybe the butterfly effect of being down one versus…
Josh and I jumped into an immediate Sox Machine Live! following this mess while the feelings were fresh, so here’s me circling back with a bullet-point recap: *Dallas Keuchel’s ERA rose to 7.78 after giving up six runs over two…
Dylan Cease’s night was as long as it was short. He gave up a homer on the first pitch of the game, and when he lost a seven-pitch battle to Trevor Story for a three-run homer before the close of…
Vince Velasquez vs. Gerrit Cole seemed like a mismatch on paper, and it turned out that way in practice. The Yankees homered four times for the second straight night, and Velasquz served up three of them. Giancarlo Stanton hit another…
In the end, all the flaws of the 2021 White Sox came back to put one more stamp on the season, turning an elimination game into a thorough eradication. You can evaluate a bunch of individual decisions and performances, but…
One theory: The White Sox wanted to test whether falling behind 6-0 was the key to unlocking the entire might of their offense after the results on Friday night. Another theory: After winning the Crosstown Roomba Cleaning Station on Friday…
Dylan Cease had two rough innings, which isn’t good. It’s worse when he didn’t complete four. Only one was of his doing. His night started with two unimposing grounders that turned into two baserunners on an infield single and Yoán…
For three innings, Dylan Cease outpitched the American League’s best starter. The second turn through the order is where Gerrit Cole settled the matter. After wending his way through the first three innings with only walk to his line, Cease’s…
If you chose to tune out from this game after the first two innings, you missed Luis Robert’s first major-league home run. It was a moonshot, so much so that it didn’t look like a lock to leave the yard…
Followed-from-work bullet-point recap: *Dylan Cease finally encountered an endless form of early trouble. Instead of absorbing an early crooked number en route to five or more serviceable innings, the Twins never stopped beating him up. Cease gave up five straight…