Come Full Circle

This must have been how it started with Clare, her an infant nestled alongside me with the White Sox game on the television. Last night, we traded daughter for grandson so she could watch her husband coach high school football. The kid didn’t seem to mind much whenever the old man muttered. And you’d think he wouldn’t have much to mutter about after his Sox beat the visiting Tigers 8-1, with Jose Abreu picking up four RBIs and Tim Anderson going 4-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Gavin Sheets, my pick to click most any day he’s in the lineup, had two hits to go with two RBIs. And I’d be complaining why, exactly? Because when all the decent hitters the Sox have actually play together, things happen (see above). With two games left in the season, the Astros have one more victory. All those times when Anderson or Luis Robert or somebody else rested and the Sox went on to lose matter now. Houston needs to lose out, and we need to win out in order for the ALDS to open on the South Side. Otherwise, it’s on to Houston next week. Leo Joseph and his grandpa would very much like their Sox to open at home, but at least one of us isn’t holding his breath, at least not for that to happen.