Fork Time

Whether or not they know it, the 2022 White Sox are history, toast, so many dead players lurching to the finish line. Stick a fork in them, they’re done. Last night in Baltimore, Eloy Jimenez gave Dylan Cease a two-run lead in the first inning with his seventh homerun of the year. Cease gave it right back, with interest, in the bottom of the first, grooving a pitch to Ryan Mountcastle, who took it over the center-field fence for a three-run homer. That’s all she wrote, folks. Orioles 5 Sox 3. I see in today’s The Athletic that hitting coach Frank Menechino crawled out from under his rock to talk about Jimenez and his sizable talent. However,nothing on the Sox stranding eleven runners in scoring position last night, or seven the day before. But let’s talk about the guy hitting .306. Why the team pays for “manager” Tony La Russa to go on the road is beyond me. It’s not like he does anything. Oh, wait, he talks, like telling reporters after the game, “To be fair, you can’t say the team quit.” [today’s story on team website] Tomato, tomahto, Tony. You say quit, I say toast.