Chance of Rain

Clare and I thought of going to the White Sox-Twins’ game yesterday afternoon, only to be scared away by a forecast of rain. Thanks, guys. We could’ve watched the home team tie the game five times before winning 9-8 in ten innings. The big news was the return of Eloy Jimenez, who made his presence felt with two hits, one of them a homerun, and three RBIs. The hope among White Sox fandom is that Eloy energizes the dugout, something manager Tony La Russa is physically incapable of doing. Those two-run homers by Andrew Vaughn and Luis Robert along with two-hit games by Jose Abreu, Gavin Sheets and Seby Zavala can’t be a coincidence, can they? I hope not. Lance Lynn started and gave up six runs, five earned, in five innings. You might call it a Dallas Keuchel-like effort, only Lynn owned up to his poor performance. “I put us down early, didn’t throw the ball well,” he was quoted in today’s Sun-Times. “And every time we came back and tied it, I kept giving it back up.” Lynn has the “It” factor in a way Keuchel never did. People like him whatever his ERA, which right now stands at an uncomfortable 5.33. The fans, and probably general manager Rick Hahn, will probably give Lynn the benefit of the doubt because he’s so endearingly direct. Maybe Lynn will start the day game Clare and I do get to go to. I hope so.