Totally Unexpected

Oh, well. You can’t lose ’em all, though Dylan Cease sure did his best. I mean, what good’s a White Sox starter if he can’t cough up a lead? Cease did just that, turning a 2-0 advantage into a 5-2 deficit before leaving with two out in the…fifth, after throwing 105 pitches. If manager Mickey Mouse wanted, I bet Cease or Michael Kopech could throw 100 pitches over the course of three innings. Or two. But the Sox came back in this game (though against a Rockies’ team even worse than they are) to win 10-5. Oscar Colas calmed down enough in the batter’s box to double in two runs in the eighth, and Sosa followed one batter later with a three-run homer. I’ll be impressed with Colas the next time he doubles against someone with an ERA under 5.00 (Justin Bruihl’s ERA when he faced Colas). Sosa I’m a little more impressed by. He hit three line drives in Colorado that should’ve dropped in for extra-base hits, only to be robbed each time by the Rockies’ outfield. Maybe Sosa’s turned a corner, maybe not. Let’s give him a few more starts at second base to see. In the meantime, whenever Zach Remillard wants to get two hits in a game, that’s fine by me. Andrew Vaughn and Andrew Benintendi chipped in with three hits apiece. More of that, please. Now, far be it from me to be Dougie Downer, but Jake Eder, the pitcher we got from Miami for Jake Burger, started for Double-A Birmingham yesterday, and he lost. Eder gave up five earned runs in 3.1 innings of work, which, in a way, kind of qualifies him as a Sox starter, doesn’t it? That’s three starts for Eder at Birmingham. In 8.1 innings pitched, he’s 0-2 with a 15.12 ERA. For Eder’s sake, I hope Sox scout(s) saw something we mere mortals would’ve missed.