The fastest pitch Sean Burke has thrown this season was his last one -- a 99.3 mph fastball he threw to strike out Jasson Domínguez last Thursday and close out a 5-1 White Sox victory.
"I was hoping he'd call a fastball, because in my head I was thinking 'I'm just going to throw it as hard as I can and see if I can hit 100 mph right here,'" Burke said. "I'll have to try again this year."
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The MLB season isn't yet at the 81-game point, but the minor league season is officially halfway over, as all full-season leagues are entering the second halves of their seasons this week.
None of the White Sox's top four affiliates secured a postseason spot with a first-half title, but they kept their heads above water overall, finishing with a combined record of 139-137. As you might expect from a .500-ish record, it's been a mixed bag. Sam Antonacci and Braden Montgomery both produced wal...
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A few minutes after getting Seranthony Domínguez off the hook by making the White Sox walk-off winners on Monday night, Sam Antonacci tried to do it again. “We signed up to play a team sport and that’s what happens in a team sport,” Antonacci said. “If anyone’s mad about getting down, tell them to go…
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Grant Taylor and Seranthony Dominguez owe Sam Antonacci a steak dinner.
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Kyle Teel is walking on air.
"I'm ready to play ball," Teel said after being officially activated earlier on Monday . "I've been waiting for this day for a long time. It was a grind for a while, but I'm just so grateful to be back."
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After a pair of sprains teamed up to put him on the shelf for the first 76 games of the season, Kyle Teel is back, and just when the White Sox could use him the most. The White Sox activated Teel from the injured list this morning, and optioned Edgar Quero to Charlotte to make…
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Pierce George will be pitching for a third White Sox affiliate before the third month of this season is over. After opening the season and being bumped up to Winston-Salem at the start of May, the White Sox will be promoting George to Double-A Birmingham for the start of the next series. George closed out…
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It might not have been the most imposing offensive display, but the White Sox still had the Tigers where they wanted them -- leading by two runs with Bryan Hudson, Grant Taylor and Serathony Domínguez all rested and ready after six innings of a rejuvenated Davis Martin.
"You look at what that sixth inning looked like; it wasn't, obviously, the crispest of the day," Martin said. "My ego wants to go back out, but knowing that we have Huddy, Grant and Ser; you tell me we have those three guys f...
DETROIT -- Miguel Vargas, 3-for-27 with a double over his last seven games, is getting a day off. Well, half of one. Maybe.
"I think he went an entire month straight of starting every game for us," said Will Venable. "Just want to get him a day and recharge him. It won't be a full day off. It rarely is. He'll be in there at some point, I'm sure. Just wanted to give him a little bit of a blow."
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DETROIT -- The ire that Tarik Skubal directed toward the White Sox dugout on Friday night was unique, but it's pretty far from the first feedback they've gotten about the atmosphere they've conjured. It's just usually more often curiosity than condemnation.
"We've heard from other guys on other teams, or whoever, staff members have heard, 'What is going on your dugout?'" Mike Vasil said. "But we also love that, because it's kind of like, now our identity and who we are, so I think everybody ...
After today, the Birmingham Barons are done with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos for the season, and the season series can't end soon enough.
After having to play through a 3 hour, 40 minute rain delay on Thursday and nearly seeing the game suspended by curfew until the Southern League stepped in, the Barons lost 4-0 on Saturday in a seven-inning game that was delayed by four hours.
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Maybe it unfolded in an unnecessarily arduous fashion, but if you told Will Venable that a true bullpen game would limit the Tigers to four runs without any of the high-leverage arms getting involved, he'd probably take it.
"Joe Rock coming in and doing a nice job getting that out with the bases loaded [in the fourth], and then maybe a couple of the lefties that he faced we would have liked for him to handle and get out," Venable said. "But overall, our pitching staff did a good enough job t...
It’s been a wild ride in the NCAA postseason, and while many of us knew that at least one SEC school would make the College World Series final, I don’t think many expected Oklahoma to be one of the final schools. They lost their last four conference series and the SEC Tournament opener to LSU (which didn’t make the tournament). The Sooners were one of the last teams to make the field, and they’ve taken advantage of this opportunity.
North Carolina is looking to snap the SEC’s dominant run in...
DETROIT -- No one talked about Jackson Flora or anything, but otherwise t here was a lot of the premise of Jim's column about the White Sox thin upper minors pitching depth being bandied about before Sean Newcomb starts a pure bullpen game.
He was originally announced as an opener, but the Sox don't have a bulk guy for which to open, and even Newcomb might not be at the height of his powers.
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As Josh noted on the most recent episode of the Sox Machine podcast , Colson Montgomery joins some pretty elite company having now hit 41 home runs over his first 141 games (entering Friday evening's contest against the Detroit Tigers).
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As a 23-year-old right-hander who earned a midseason promotion from Low-A after running a 1.84 ERA for 58⅔ innings in Kannapolis this year, Max Banks refers to himself as a “late-bloomer.” Not so much in his current form, where he stands 6-foot-4, 225 pounds and is averaging nearly 94 mph on his four-seamer after seeing…
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DETROIT -- The audience here at Sox Machine probably wouldn't regard it as a shame , but Tarik Skubal's days in Detroit could be limited, right when his relationship with the White Sox seems to be getting interesting.
Ultimately a showdown between a guy who has won the AL ERA title twice and Brandon Eisert opening for Erick Fedde became a low-scoring game swung by a Kerry Carpenter two-run double off the latter. But the efforts to shield Fedde from the left-handed slugger ran into just as ma...
DETROIT -- The White Sox lineup against left-handed starters has gone through many evolutions this year, what with Everson Pereira's various injuries and Derek Hill getting traded. So it might surprise to learn that the Sox offense has actually been awesome against lefties. Their collective 111 wRC+ against southpaws (.242/.329/.432) is the fourth-best mark in the league.
A lot of that is Miguel Vargas hitting .325/.453/.662 against lefties this season, so the White Sox are trying to maximiz...
Surface-level results offer an easy narrative to settle on after Andrew Benintendi's pinch-hit grand slam Thursday night in The Bronx sealed up a 6-5 record for the White Sox over a four-series stretch that saw them hold their own with the Phillies, Braves, Dodgers and Yankees.
Since Munetaka Murakami has been sidelined with a hamstring strain, the 31-year-old veteran -- often the most senior member of the lineup in games he starts -- has stepped up. Including the May 29 game where Murakami ...
You won’t see the Birmingham’s Thursday night box score against Pensacola listed below because the game was suspended after eight innings with the Barons leading the Blue Wahoos 16-13 due to Southern League curfew rules that start new innings from starting after 1 a.m. As for why the game didn’t end after six full innings…
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After consecutive nights of getting their teeth kicked in , the Chicago White Sox were in need of a good pitching night against the powerful New York Yankees. It wouldn’t hurt if they could string some runs together, too. Any sort of positivity that they could carry out from the Bronx and on their way to a key division road series in Detroit.
The long ball played a big factor once again for the White Sox, but two pleasant surprises provided by Sean Burke and Andrew Benintendi powered a 5-1 w...
Everson Pereira made a fantastic catch to end the eighth inning and spare Trevor Richards’ tab at least one additional run on Wednesday, but preserving the seven-run deficit came at the cost of a trip to the 7-day concussion list. The White Sox placed him on the IL this afternoon, with Junior Pérez is coming…
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Before we delve into the way the White Sox’s pitching depth has utterly evaporated this season, have you ever noticed how the launch of a starting pitcher’s major league career is so reliant on timing? There isn’t another job in sports whose make-or-break moment depends so much on multiple tumblers clicking into place, as the…
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