Not a Good Idea

If it were up to me, the White Sox would be facing Jordan Leasure instead of Leasure facing Sox opponents. Putting Leasure out there with the game on the line just isn’t a good idea. But Sox manager New-Mickey Venable thought otherwise. After five shutout innings from starter Aaron Civale (!!) and one from Tyler Alexander, in came Leasure who needed all of two batters before he grooved a fat splitter to Ian Happ. That made the score 1-0 bad guys. But wait, there’s more. Leasure gave up a two-out single to Nico Hoerner, so Matt Shaw could get not one but two RBIs on his homer to left. Their balloon deflated ,the Sox went on to lose, 6-1. All I can do is hope Venable learned his lesson. Only Leasure’s six losses and four blown save opportunities suggest that lesson keeps getting repeated and repeated without the student learning anything from it.