Hits and Misses

It’s official—the White Sox are playing the contract, not the player, with Andrew Benintendi. You’d think manager Mickey Mouse would sit his left fielder in game two of yesterday’s doubleheader with the Nationals after Benintendi went 1-for-4 (a meaningless single) and hit into two double plays, but you’d be wrong. Out he went for game two, and out he went with his bat, 0-for-3 with another double play. Sox split. I guess it could be worse, and Martin Maldonado could’ve started both games behind the plate. That way he could’ve gone 0-for-6 with six strikeouts instead of 0-for-3 with three. But ask Mouse and no doubt he’d say that Erick Fedde threw seven shutout innings for his fourth victory of the season because Maldonado was catching him. Yeah, right. Speaking of the manager with a career .361 win/loss percentage, he actually came out and criticized a player in public, two actually, Bryan Ramos for missing a hit-and-run sign and Gavin Sheets for sleepwalking in right field. Will wonders never cease? Oh, and Andrew Vaughn hit two homeruns to drive in all four runs in that game-two win for Fedde. So, they’re not ceasing yet.