Grumpy

The White Sox getting off to a 1-4 start definitely makes me grumpy.  For this I’ve tried to stay healthy the past five months?

Take pitching (please, as the old joke goes).  Lucas Giolito gives up earned seven runs in 3.2 innings on 80 pitches; Reynaldo Lopez four earned runs in .2 innings and 31 pitches; Dylan Cease four earned runs in 2.1 innings and 64 pitches; and Carlos Rodon five earned runs in 3.2 innings and 71 pitches.  See a pattern emerging?  I do.  Sox starters throw too many damn’ pitches in outings that are too damn’ short.

 

Just for fun, keep in mind that the Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks threw a complete-game shutout on 103 pitches in his season-opening start against the Brewers last week; Giolito needed 80 just to reach two outs in the fourth.  OMG, as the kids like to say.  What gives?  I can’t say for sure, but I sure know what I’d like to go, I mean, who.  Don Cooper, there’s the door, and don’t let it hit you on the way out.

 

The pitching woes are magnified with the Sox facing the Indians.  Here’s a team with pitching like the South Side had in the 1960s, a bunch of anonymous types who keep throwing strikes.  Everybody in the Sox dugout—and at the plate—looked flummoxed by Cleveland pitchers pouring in first-pitch strikes.  Dear Sox pitchers, try it sometime; you’d be surprised how often hitters will take that pitch.  Dear Sox hitters, swing on the first pitch every once and a while, why don’t you?

Beats me.