Luck

In sports, teams make their own luck. The White Sox are a very bad team, ergo, they have very bad luck. Yesterday, with one on and one out in the fifth inning of a scoreless game, Dylan Cease threw a full-count pitch to Kyle Farmer that caught the top of the strike zone, only plate umpire Sean Barber called it ball four. Ryan Jeffers was going with the pitch and still would’ve been thrown out at second by about two or three feet. Bad luck, there. Instead of the inning being over, the Twins had two on for the next batter, Edouard Julien. Cease went full on Julien because that’s what he’s done all season, and he paid for it; Julien hit a three-run homer. Of course, the best Cease could’ve hoped for was a no-decision. I doubt he would’ve pitched into the eighth inning, when Jorge Polanco homered to right-center. 4-0, 1-0, a loss is a loss. And, speaking of losing, Sox manager Mickey Mouse sat both Yoan Moncada and Luis Robert Jr.; Moncada is batting .185 with thirteen strikeouts over his last seven games, Robert .107 with twelve strikeouts. The two have five RBIs between them in that span. And ex-Sox Jake Burger? He’s hitting .357 with two homers and six RBIs. The homerun yesterday against Atlanta gives him thirty-three on the year with 75 RBIs. Gosh, that’s the same number of RBIs as Robert, and he’s a franchise player. Lucky Burger.