And a Mouse Shall Lead Them

The White Sox jumped on Max Scherzer for three first-inning runs in Texas yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, they had to let the Rangers bat, too. Final score, Rangers 5 Sox 3. I heard Sox manager Mickey Mouse say nice things about starter Touki Toussaint. Four runs in 5.1 innings makes for a low bar, but this is the White Sox we’re talking about. “That’s a really tough lineup to navigate through, and we just came up short,” Mouse told reporters after the game. [story in today’s Tribune] Truly, Abraham Lincoln couldn’t have said it better. Funny that Mouse didn’t have much to say about the fourteen strikeouts—forty in three games—his “hitters” racked up or the continued struggles of “star” third baseman Yoan Moncada, now 7-for-30 with four RBIs since coming off the IL. Maybe that's what they mean by "quiet leadership." Or not.