More of the Above

Jake Burger looks to be coming out of his slump. His two-run homer yesterday started the scoring in a 8-1 White Sox win over the Braves. The visitors take the series against the best team in baseball. Truly, who knew? I suspected, or at least hoped, Burger would bounce back. Unlike other Sox hitters, who will remain nameless here, he has been making both regular and hard contact, without much to show for it the last six or seven games; the ball he hit yesterday was measured at 461 feet. Impressive, like Andrew Benintendi going 3-for-5 and Luis Robert Jr. picking up four hits, including his twenty-seventh homerun. What else could you ask for? How about Dylan Cease going more than five innings? I mean, ninety-nine pitches? Manager Mickey Mouse said Cease’s stuff was “electric.” [story in today’s Tribune]. Too bad it keeps shorting out.