Whatever number of fans that showed up to Rate Field specifically for the postgame concert by Marshmello were treated to a surprise in-game show featuring Mitch Spence None The Richer.
Even though the Royals opened this game with a righty in Steven Cruz, the White Sox stacked left-handed hitters in the middle of the order in anticipation of the right-handed Mitch Spence coming in next.
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David Sandlin has been called up (Joe Rock was optioned) to start for the White Sox Friday night at the open of a three-game set against the Royals.
A productive Triple-A arm (1.57 ERA in 23 innings with Charlotte) with major league experience is a nice, traditional solution to a hole in the major league rotation. But Sandlin was sent down after his previous three-start audition for pretty inarguable performance struggles (8.10 ERA), and being lined up against Noah Schultz having a third reh...
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Aside from being credited as an unspoken driving force of the turnaround on the South Side, Pope Leo XIV’s White Sox fandom had taken a back seat to weightier matters like speaking out against the war in Iran. But the pope’s baseball interests came to the fore once again when A.J. Pierzynski was afforded an…
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The White Sox have a lot of shortstops in their system, and they could add another if they draft Roch Cholowsky or Grady Emerson with the first overall pick next month.
As they seek to distribute those infielders around the diamond to create upward mobility at various levels, Caleb Bonemer is probably the first place to start.
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The White Sox's approach to in-game strategy, an endless wave of pinch-hitters, openers and defensive substitutions that regularly empties Will Venable's bench before the ninth inning, requires some sort of snappy summary to better explain the overriding concept.
"If we see five dollars on the ground, we pick it up," said bench coach Walker McKinven. "That's kind of the thought process."
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The last Farm Fortnight served as something of a first-half overview, the main theme of which was that the White Sox farm system had largely done a good job of supplying the major league roster with reinforcements, which is the main point of one. That said, I was still surprised to see Baseball America say…
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Guardians rookie Khalil Watson got his first hit during their seventh inning rally Monday night off Grant Taylor, got his first home run Tuesday night for Cleveland's only run off Sean Burke, and continued his coming out party against Taylor again on Wednesday.
His 85 mph grounder was a seeing-eye single for sure, but it was the second well-placed soft roller Taylor allowed in the 10th, and brought Watson to six RBI for the series. And when Chase Meidroth and Braden Montgomery both grounded ...
If the White Sox lose on Wednesday, they will still have a share of the American League Central lead and technically be ahead of the Guardians on percentage points.
But if they win, they'll be all alone with a two-game lead, a commanding start to their head-to-head matchup, and maybe even return to being one of three AL teams with a positive run differential (dare to dream).
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Before the White Sox try to finish off a sweep of the Cleveland Guardians at home, let's take a moment to empty out a P.O. Sox mailbag that's bursting at the seams.
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The evening after Farm Fortnight opens by mentioning the White Sox’s top four affiliates finished the first half with a cumulative winning record, all six minor league teams lost on Tuesday night. The Winston-Salem Dash had the most painful evening of the bunch. They led Hub City 4-2 entering the bottom of the ninth, only…
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Sean Newcomb showed it doesn't have to be so hard.
After Grant Taylor and Seranthony Domínguez combined to squander late-inning multi-run leads the last two games , Newcomb took over for Sean Burke with a runner on second and one out in the seventh with the White Sox leading 2-1, and Will Venable didn't need to go to the bullpen again.
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It's a big night for Sean Burke to go deep in his start, and not just because he got the Sox Machine feature treatment that every member of the organization covets. But because the Sox have yet to use any reliever on three-straight days this season, and deploying any of Bryan Hudson, Grant Taylor and Seranthony Domínguez would require them to break new ground. Not that there's necessarily a clamor rising for every member of that trio .
"Huddy is down, will probably have Seranthony and Taylor...
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...
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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