The White Sox
stink too much for me to stay up late for a West Coast game, and, even if they
didn’t, I’m too old for that sort of thing.
Instead, I went to bed nice and early, got up refreshed and looked up
the score online. You didn’t think I was
going to say I checked the box score in the paper, did you?
Lo and behold,
the 35-61 Sox beat the 50-51 Angels by a score of 5-3. Anytime young right-hander Lucas Giolito can
find the plate, I’m happy, and Giolito found the plate often enough to improve
his record to 7-8 (and “lower” his ERA to 6.09). Oh, but the managing.
Rick Renteria of
the Sox used six relievers, four going a third of an inning and one going two
thirds of an inning; in contrast, the Angels employed a mere four
relievers. Meanwhile, at the circus
known as Joe Maddon’s Cubs, ringmaster Joe again used position players, two to
be exact, to pitch in last night’s 7-1 loss to the Diamondbacks; catcher Victor
Caratini made his second relief appearance in four days. Where is any of this good baseball?
Rick, look at
your record and tell me why you’re managing like it’s the seventh game of the
World Series. Joe, explain to me why it’s
so important to set a record for a team having the most pitching appearances in
a season by position players? Last time
I looked, Babe Ruth is dead, and he ain’t coming back.
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