Richie

This is a joke. Eloy is a circus act out there.

I don't really want to watch this movie...

And it all comes undone. It will be 4-0 soon

Looking confused vs Anibal Sanchez at this point in his career is dog sh*t. Terrible AB's for the most part. Last hard hit ball we had was Yolmer on the DP.

A stress-free inning vs the meat of the order. Very nice to see, Covey.

Nice hustle by Leury. Come on Yoan

Even if we remain in the wild card hunt. I highly doubt Hahn would make a move which would compromise our team's potential through the early 2020's. I don't think it is of any consequence if we compete.

Just a decent throw would have had him nailed.

Get back to one game of .500... collapse back to 3 or 4 under. Standard.

If anyone had been due up besides Anderson. Who (despite his improvement) still has a K rate near 20%. I would have felt fine... but alas... I knew he waited on-deck.

Yeah, Yolmer squared one up down the line. Rendon was hugging it, stuck his glove out and it stuck. Momentum carried him right into the bag. Nothing Castillo could do to get back.

Why is that SO F'ING PREDICTABLE? Immediately upon realizing that Castillo had no prayer at scoring on Tilson's base hit. Why did we all just know what awaited us?

Edited. I knew that and then had a brain fart while posting.

Last night's game still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Let's hope Covey can give us a chance today. His previous two starts have been relatively solid. Sanchez is certainly a pitcher we can put up runs against. https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1136278357337956352

To play devil's advocate... Cease could potentially be just as bad as any of our starters at the big league level. He has some real command issues. Falls behind in counts a lot. Usually reaches the 100 pitch plateau by the 5th inning. Could get him thrashed at the big league level. Letting him work those problems out in Charlotte a little while longer before throwing him to the sharks isn't an outlandish line of thinking, in the least. What we did to Giolito, allowing him to come up before he was ready and get beaten like a red headed step child. It can destroy a lot of pitchers psyche. We're lucky that he's seemingly a very headstrong kid. Not every pitcher can be expected to endure that and then reach their full potential. The calls for Cease's promotion greatly resemble the tell tale signs of "backup quarterback fallacy". Just because the current option isn't working out so well, doesn't mean the other option is better.

God, this game sucks now... I hate this. The kind of loss that can begin a spiral.

I just said that to my buddy I'm texting with. I called it before the AB too.

Lopez is a very bad Major League pitcher.

This is a really shitty loss...

If anyone wants to feel even worse about going up against Strasburg tonight, continue reading below. (Per RotoGrinders) Stephen Strasburg is having his usual dominant year, but he’s not standing still; this year, he’s upped his curveball usage to 30.4 percent, 14th-highest in MLB (min. 500 pitches). It’s an elite offering, and he’s allowed just one extra-base hit in 81 plate appearances ending with the pitch: a double to Pete Alonso back on March 30th. That amounts to a .013 ISO against the pitch (and that’s not a typo). Here’s hoping he makes liberal use of his Uncle Charlie against the White Sox, who rank 27th in team wOBA against curveballs (.236). And if we pull up the PlateIQ to see how the individual White Sox hitters have fared against the pitch, it’s a massacre of red: The lone bright spot is projected #9 hitter Charlie Tilson, in eight batted ball events (and that’s a Derek Carty-certified small sample size). Even if we zoom out a bit to the less granular, we can see this is a matchup Strasburg should exploit, as the White Sox have the second-highest strikeout rate in MLB against right-handed pitching (26.4%).

What? That sort of warrants an even bigger thumbs up for RH. He went out of his way to negotiate a deal for Colome, despite him not being on the open market. I'm not some RH apologist, but you're really going out of your way to discredit him anyway you possibly can. This part doesn't even make sense... A guy who led the league if I remember correctly in saves a few years ago. Some "find." ?

I hope you're right. JD has been my favorite hitter in baseball to watch going back to 2015.

Not entirely sure how he even fits on our Major League roster right now. He is rather pointless to this team. Not only can't I see dropping an outfielder for him, I'd rather see Palka up as well.

Could be I thought Eloy was that guy, if I'm being honest. The way he was just obliterating AAA pitching last season.

Good point. Side Note: I live in the Detroit area and usually have the Tigers games on the TV while I watch the White Sox on my laptop. I have enjoyed rooting for Beckham whenever he's in the lineup. Which has been a lot. I knew he had a cup of coffee with Seattle recently, but figured he'd never get another shot like this. He hasn't been completely horrible.