Behold

Behold the rebuilt and rebuilding White Sox, able to stay close late into a game and then fall apart, taking a 2-1 score with nobody on and one out and proceeding to give up eight runs in a 10-1 debacle on the road in Kansas City. The Sox are supposed to be smarter this year, but you’d never know it from right fielder Dominic Fletcher throwing to the wrong base—I won’t mention Fletcher’s started the season 1-for-15—and shortstop Braden Shewmake letting a groundball go through his legs. Giving up eight runs says you’re bad, and five of them being unearned says you’re not too sharp in the field. I should note here that Fletcher wasn’t charged with an error anymore than first baseman Andrew Vaughn was when he dropped a catchable foul popup. Manager Mickey Mouse says he’s OK with physical errors but not the mental ones. In which case, how can he be OK with himself? For example, last night marked the fourth time Mouse’s used reliever Deivi Garcia in six games this season. Garcia now has given up seven runs (five earned) in his last two appearances, totaling one inning of work. I don’t see what Mouse sees. Ditto Dominic Leone, who followed Garcia to pour more gas on the fire. In four games so far this season, Leone has given up six runs (three earned) in just 2.1 innings of work. And guess who’s given up three, count ’em, three gopher balls? Yup, Leone. Mouse said in his postgame squeak that they’d clean things up, to which commentator Ozzie Guillen noted bad baseball doesn’t resemble a dirty floor that you can mop clean. Love that Ozzie. Meanwhile, down on the farm, Triple-A Charlotte has gotten off to a 1-5 start. Last night, they lost to Norfolk 9-8, which was a whole lot better than the night before, when they fell to the Tides by a score of 26-11. Heston Kjerstad, whom the parent Orioles weren’t willing to part with in any trade for Dylan Cease, had ten RBIs. So it goes for an organization rotting from the head down.