By a Thousand Cuts

Again, thank God for TIVO. That little device allows me to zoom through the mediocrity of the 2022 White Sox, who lost last night to ex-teammate Dane Dunning by a score of 8-0. The game wasn’t as close as the score might indicate, folks. What can you say when a team goes up against a pitcher it should know and one who hasn’t won since the end of April? The less the better? I’d definitely go with something other than the gibber that spouts from the mouth of manager Tony La Russa, who credited both Dunning and his own hitting coach Frank Menechino, who kept telling his charges to elevate their swings. Sox hitters responded with something like twelve groundouts. As for starter Michael Kopech, nothing says stink like four consecutive baserunners after two out and nobody on in the third inning. Did Kopech get mad after giving up three total runs that inning? If he did, he had a weird way of showing it, putting two of the first three batters on in the fourth. Kopech was followed by Jose Ruiz out of the bullpen. And, wouldn’t you know it, Boink, wild pitch, run number four charged to Kopech. Tim Anderson is one for his last seventeen while Yoan Moncada is hitting .160 over his last seven games and .179 over his last fifteen (if pointing this out makes me a hater, so be it). Lucky for La Russa and the man who hired him that the Chicago media is too busy reporting on a second-year offensive tackle for the Bears. Will Teven Jenkins play for the Munsters, or won’t he? On that question, I care about as much as the White Sox do about competing.