Imposters

Another game, another walk-off loss for the White Sox 4-3 in ten innings. Nice of Pedro Grifol to let Gavin Sheets pinch-hit, at least. Playing for the first time in six days, when he hit a three-run homerun by the way, Sheets homered to tie the game at three in yesterday’s game against the Rays. I’d like to know Grifol’s reasoning for sitting a lefthanded power bat for so long. What I get instead is Grifol telling reporters after the game, “We got a good team. We prepare. We just got to keep doing what we are doing.” Ah, that would be losing. Speaking of which, is this the real Dylan Cease, who needs 101 pitches to go four innings? If so, last season needs to be treat as no more than an aberration. Cease has made four starts so far this season. Three times, he’s pitched five or fewer innings. Cy who? Luis Robert Jr. who, too? Robert struck out in all four of his at-bats yesterday and has struck out in thirteen of his last thirty-seven at-bats. He’s also mired in a 3-for-37 slump. I would assume the Sox haven’t invested $100-plus million in Robert for these results. But with Jerry Reinsdorf and Rick Hahn, you never know. I mean, Pedro Grifol knocked their socks off.