I
wasn’t wild about the White Sox trading for Jeff Samardzija going into last
season. It was three young players and a
prospect for a pitcher who always reminds people of what a great receiver he
was in college. Well, Samardzija’s taken
his headstrong act to San Francisco while those three players acquitted
themselves well against the Sox last night.
Josh
Phegley—Rick Hahn and/or Kenny Williams liked Tyler Flowers more behind the
plate—and Marcus Semien—we got to keep Carlos Sanchez—had two hits apiece, with
Phegley scoring two runs, and Chris Bassitt went 5-1/3 innings in a
non-decision. After giving up a
three-run homer to Todd Frazier in the fifth, Bassitt stood on the mound,
biting his glove. Back in the dugout
after the inning was over, he took to biting on a towel. Something about that I find endearing, as
opposed to, say, the routine of our starter, Jose Quintana.
The
man is the pitching equivalent of Mike Hargrove, the Human Rain Delay. A runner gets on base, and Quintana turns
into a statue. He leads the world right
now in career non-decisions. There may
not be a sabermetric measure for this, but I say the slo-mo works on his
teammates’ psyches. The only way to see
if I’m right is for Quintana to quicken the pace with runners on base.
Hey,
Mr. Plate Umpire, do us a solid and enforce the pitch clock, will you?
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