More...Pathetic

Last night with the score tied at one in the top of the sixth inning with two out and a runner on first base, White Sox manager New-Mickey Venable made a move straight out of the Old-Mickey playbook—he brought in reliever Tyler Alexander. Consider that Alexander sported a 5-14 record with a 5.01 ERA and that he had been scored on in his previous six appearances. No matter. In he went and out went a three-run homerun by Colton Cowser, preceded by a Samuel Basallo single. Basallo went into that at-bat hitting .177, Cowser .197. Both are lefthanded batters. White is a lefthanded pitcher. Orioles 4 Sox 1. I looked for a postgame comment from Venable but couldn’t find one. Maybe words failed him, too.