On Ben Chapman's Return to Yankee Stadium

As long as the White Sox continue to insist Dallas Keuchel and Jose Ruiz are major league pitchers capable of winning games, they’re going to be humiliated the way they were yesterday at Yankee Stadium. Keuchel gave up six earned runs in four innings; a two-out, opposite field grand slam on a two-strike pitch to D.J. LeMahieu pretty much sums it up After the Sox clawed their way back to within a run, HOF manager Tony La Russa brought in Ruiz, who promptly gave the home team the two-run cushion they’d win by, 7-5. As for Josh Donaldson calling Tim Anderson “Jackie,” as in Jackie Robinson, he was merely channeling his inner Ben Chapman. The best response to a jerk being a jerk and, possibly, a racist is to come back and beat his team, which the Sox failed to do. That falls on La Russa; the people who hired him; and the people who assembled this ostensibly-championship caliber roster. Josh Harrison? Leury Garcia for another three years? The Sox are trotting out a lineup this afternoon with seven players batting .233 or lower; six .218 or lower; and three at .200 or lower. How exactly is a team like that supposed to win when Dallas Keuchel takes the mound? Bad decisions merit consequences. Or they do for any business not named your Chicago White Sox.