Wait, There's More

How is this humanly possible?  Five days after striking out 14 Tigers, White Sox starter Reynaldo Lopez looked clueless on the mound against the Red Sox, giving up six runs in five innings in a Bad Sox 6-1 win over the Good Sox.  Wait, there’s more.  Ex-Sox Chris Sale earned his first win of the year, going six shutout innings while striking out ten.  White Sox hitters, as is their wont, looked clueless in their approach to a tough pitcher.  Why doesn’t anyone go up to hitting coach Todd Steverson and ask what the plan was in facing Sale, if there was a plan?  Wait, there’s more.  

 

Lopez gave up a three-run homerun in the top of the first to Rafael Devers; how nice for a player’s first homer of the season to travel 439 feet to dead centerfield, this on a fastball down the middle.  Wait, there’s more, as in Michael Chavis taking a 79 mph slop pitch from Lopez in the sixth inning and depositing it 459 feet from the plate somewhere deep to left field.  Wait, there’s more.  A White Sox reliever walked in a run, again.

 

Wait, there’s more.  In discussing Carlos Rodon’s injury, White Sox GM Rick Hahn told the Tribune Friday, “To stem off the inevitable Dylan Cease question, no one is going to be promoted to Chicago simply because there’s a need in Chicago” unless that player is deemed ready to go.  What a load of crap.  Maybe someone should sit Hahn down and tell him the story of Wally Pipp and Lou Gehrig.  Injuries test organizations, and all the White Sox are good at is making excuses for not wanting to see what their top minor leaguers can do.

 

Rick, pitchers get only so many innings a year, to say nothing of a career.  Why spend a single inning more than necessary in the minors?  Dominating Triple-A is nice, but not the same as learning how to face a major-league team like the Red Sox.  And isn’t the best pitching coach in the world sitting in the White Sox, not the Charlotte Knights’, dugout?    

 

Oh, this rebuild stuff gets old.  I can’t wait if there’s more.