Litmus Test

Here’s how a team can tell if they’re playing good baseball: Can they beat the White Sox? It’s not that hard, evidenced by the Sox record of 47-69. But the Guardians couldn’t do it over the weekend, and neither could the Yankees after their visit to the South Side. The New Yawkers lost two out of three games, including last night’s 9-2 finale. How bad are the overspending Yankees? In the top of the seventh inning, they had one in and the bases loaded with nobody out, the Sox up by three, 5-2. Out goes Jimmy Lambert, in comes Aaron Bummer, he of the 6.53 ERA. A strikeout and double play later, the Sox are out of the jam and an inning away from scoring four in the bottom of the eighth against what’s supposed to be the best bullpen in baseball with a 3.18 ERA. Michele and I were downtown yesterday to see Richard Thomas in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” We saw a number of Yankees’ fans walking about, hours away from seeing their beloved Bombers lay an egg at Guaranteed Rate Whatever. I hope only hope they all had a nice “El” ride back to O’Hare and none of the doors hit them on the way out. Losers.