Keep On Truckin'

Another game, another injury for the White Sox, who put second baseman Nick Madrigal on the 60-day IL yesterday with a right-hamstring tear. Madrigal suffered the injury trying to beat out an infield hit in Wednesday’s 6-2 loss to the Blue Jays. He now joins outfielders Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert on the 60-day IL. My daughter, with an undergraduate degree in kinesiology, suspects something is wrong with team-workout regimens. My “they’re too big and muscle-bound thesis” wouldn’t seem to apply here, given that Madrigal stands all of 5’8”. Whatever the case, that old injury bug has definitely found a home on the South Side. God bless Dallas Keuchel for leading by example. The veteran lefthander gave up two runs in six innings, and it should’ve been one had third baseman Yoan Moncada thought to start a double play on a groundball hit to him in the sixth inning. Yoan, know how many outs there are, OK? Luckily, that mental error didn’t stop the Sox from winning the rubber game of the series, 5-2. And blessings also go out to Adam Engel, who got his first hit—which also happened to be his first homerun—of the season in the seventh inning; it turned a 3-2 lead into a 4-2 game. Not bad for Engel’s first week back, taking away a homer with his glove, hitting one with his bat. Now, we’ll see what Danny Mendick and Leury Garcia have to offer at second base in place of Madrigal. I say the glass will be more than half-full. Fingers crossed.