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OK, so the White Sox took two out of three from the worst team in the American League. Now what? They can’t pitch Dylan Cease every game. Too bad, that. Cease went six innings yesterday, picking up his eleventh win of the season, 4-1, against the A’s. Cease yielded one run on four hits and a walk; he also had seven strikeouts. The 26-year old righthander has gone twelve straight starts giving up no more than a run an appearance. That’s the good news. And the bad? The ever-engaging Cease (if I heard right, he’s making his own honey) doesn’t have much in the way of coattails. I started the season thinking Lucas Giolito would be the horse whisperer to Cease and Michael Kopech, but I was wrong. Giolito mostly talks gibber after the latest in a string of frustrating starts while Kopech seems detached, on a good night. Oh, Cease talks, alright. I’m just not sure either of his fellow starters is listening. Someday, the Sox may feature a lineup with both Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert in it. I hope so, because Eloy, peculiar pigeon-toed stance and all, is heating up. With Robert, the power virtually drips from his swing. With Eloy, he just seems to make contact, and the ball takes flight, like it did yesterday with a homerun to right-center field. One game over .500. Do I dare dream two games with the Royals coming to town?