Stench

The fish has gone from rotting from the head down to stinking all over. Last night in Texas, the White Sox suffered their eighth straight, 4-3 in ten innings to an underachieving Rangers’ team. They’re now one game behind the pace set by the 40-120 Mets in 1962. Keep a good thought. John Brebbia lost the game Sunday with three eighth-inning runs. For an encore yesterday, he gave up the game-tying hit with two out in the ninth. Just for fun, Steven Wilson followed suit in the tenth, a two-out single by Wyatt Langford providing the walk-off. The Sox were 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position, including the tenth inning, when the ghost runner didn’t move from second base as Luis Robert Jr., Andrew Benintendi and Tommy Pham failed to get the ball out of the infield. In fact, Robert and Benintendi struck out, which Sox “hitters” did seventeen times on the night. And yet Marcus Thames keeps his job as hitting coach. Then again, Mickey Mouse is still around, too.