Glimmers

When your daughter calls to say, “We wouldn’t have played softball in this kind of weather,” you know it’s bad, that Chicago mix of wet and cold that comes in March and April. And still the White Sox played a game last night against the Braves. Not only that, they won, 3-2, behind seven innings of one-run ball by Garrett Crochet. The offense, such as it was, consisted of two bloop-RBI singles from Gavin Sheets and Andrew Vaughn plus a pinch-hit homerun by Paul DeJong. Wow, talk about burning ears for that bunch. Crochet was even better than in his first start, also a one-run effort; that extra inning can make all the difference. I don’t want to get my hopes up too much, but the lefthander threw only 93 pitches, giving up three hits and a walk to go with eight strikeouts. Daddy like. This being the White Sox and Michael Kopech being Michael Kopech, the ninth inning was anything but smooth. Kopech gave up a homer, a single and a walk before getting around to recording his first career save. Oh, and he needed 39 pitches to go 1.2 innings. Still, he did it. I take my glimmers of hope where I can find them.