Isn't It a Pity?

Back in the day, I played the great South Side game of Fast Pitch, two to a side, may the better team win. We all lived to be on the right side of a blowout. That way, up by ten or more runs, we could let the opposing pitcher know just how bad he was with a pity swing—wouldn’t do it with the game on the line, but now we just wanted to get the game over with. The Giants gave the Sad Sox a pity win yesterday afternoon, 6-2. And all this time I thought only the other team could score four runs in the ninth. Yea, Korey Lee and Lenyn Sosa both had two-out, two-run singles. Maybe that will provide the momentum for turning this season around. Just kidding, sort of like when the Sox pitch Garrett Crochet. Yesterday, Crochet threw 57 pitches over four innings. On the season, he’s gone 128.2 innings, fanning 180. Now, will somebody tell me if Crochet will ever reach 200 innings in a season? Theoretically, he could get seven more starts, totaling, what, another 28 innings? That would put him at 156.2. Any takers that he won’t hit that mark? How about 200 innings in a season for the White Sox? Didn’t think so.