The Chicago White Sox continued their climb in the American League Central with a 6-1 win over the American League-leading Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night at Tropicana Field, extending their winning streak to three games and improving to 58-51. The win also matched the team’s season high of seven games above .500 while increasing […]
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Nashville Sounds 4, Charlotte Knights 2A snoozing offense proved to be Charlotte’s downfall. There were lots of zeroes to start the game. Through the fifth inning, the Knights had zero hits and were 0-for-2 with runners in scoring position. Although the lineup managed to limit its strikeouts to five, there was so much to be […]
Nick Martinez is in line to be one of the finalists for the AL Cy Young award this season. So far this year, he’s done a great job at limiting hard hits and walks, making him a tough pitcher to attack. But that was before the White Sox made Friday night look like a Home […]
The Rays entered Friday’s game with a three-game lead in the AL East, after the Yankees beat the Cubs in an afternoon affair at Wrigley Field, By the end of Friday’s game, which saw the division lead cut to 2.5, the last completed trade was AJ Minter to the Twins. There is now less than […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- On paper, Nick Martinez presented a tricky matchup for the best scoring offense in the American League.
For one, he's good; having allowed five runs in his last five starts and coming off his first career All-Star appearance. But moreover, the Sox thrive off patience and pop, reeling wayward pitchers into their honeyhole, and Martinez is the brand of relentless strike-throwing and soft contact machine that has flummoxed them when taking the form of Keider Montero, or ...
May isn't the sexiest name on the market, but his combination of floor and ceiling will give him plenty of suitors.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The White Sox are leading the American League Central and looking to buy, enough that this month's State of the Sox meeting with coaches and players focused on addressing the distraction of Monday's looming trade deadline.
"There's a non-zero chance that the DNA of our club changes here over the next couple of days," Will Venable said. "We just want to be prepared for that, and make sure that it's not more of a distraction than it needs to be."
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After getting out of the gates after the All-Star break with a strong road trip that saw four wins in six games, the White Sox started to falter. Losing four of five to the Houston Astros and New York Yankees, it looked as if the South Siders were starting to wilt under the pressure. Out […]
The Mets and White Sox reportedly discussed a trade that would send Freddy Peralta to the South Side of Chicago. Michael Marino reports that White Sox prospects George Wolkow and Boston Smith were among the players discussed in the return. Marino also stated that the talks have stalled a bit, and the Mets are in […]
Behind the White Sox's back-to-back extra-inning walk-off victories against the Yankees this week was a herculean effort from their bullpen, which didn't allow an earned run over 11 innings of work, all conducted within the same physically taxing 24-hour span.
Pitching a scoreless eighth on Wednesday made it five innings in five days for Trevor Richards, before Grant Taylor took the game from the ninth into the 11th with a season-high seven outs recorded, and Jordan Hicks worked for the thir...
Forget the big names: These dark horse MLB trade candidates could help AL playoff contenders like the Yankees, Red Sox, White Sox and more.
NASHVILLE — Jose Urquidy came to the White Sox organization on a roll, and the change in uniforms didn’t disturb it. By throwing five scoreless innings in his Charlotte debut against the Nashville Sounds on Tuesday, Urquidy lowered his ERA to 2.17 over his last 11 starts. By allowing just two hits and a walk,…
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The Yankees got walked off last night in a 12-inning...
Welp, it looks like the Yankees offense is back in the toilet after a promising start to their series against the White Sox. They have failed to score in 28 of their last 32 innings played, scoring just two unearned runs in their last 22 innings. With just one dependable hitter in their lineup in […]
1909 “Sleepy” Bill Burns fired a two-hitter in a doubleheader opener, defeating Walter Johnson in Washington, 1-0. The White Sox also knocked off the Senators in the nightcap behind a complete game from Frank Smith, 4-0, holding Washington to seven hits on the entire day. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Burns would become one of […]
Some South Side Sox readers are aware that I am fond of catcher Seby Zavala. We have reached the five-year anniversary of Zavala’s three-homer game, so I feel the need to revisit that incredible feat, which was the most out-of-the-blue performance I have ever seen. It was July 31, 2021, and entering that day, the […]
After turning their season around in June, the 2006 Minnesota Twins cultivated some of the most iconic moments in franchise history the following month. In a July 24-26 series at the Chicago White Sox, the Twins swept all three from the Pale Hose: 7-4 (12 hits), 4-3 (9 hits), & 7-4 (16 hits). In one […]
Episode Summary
Chicago White Sox pull off a series split against the New York Yankees in wild ways. But it's a continuation of a young team showing its resiliency. Plus, a look into Sean Burke's dominance and the White Sox make their way to St. Petersburg, Florida.
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After winning seven of their previous nine games, including the first two of their road series with the Chicago White Sox, the New York Yankees lost a pair of extra-inning games to close the series. Yankees manager Aaron Boone suddenly lost his patience following Thursday’s 2-1 defeat in 11 innings. The Yankees were held in […]
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Sean Burke was lights out for six scoreless innings. Ryan Weathers of the Yankees was equally as good, but for seven. Each starter gave up only three hits, Burke walking two and Weathers three, with Burke winning the battle of the K’s with 10 (one short of his career high) to Weathers’ four. Burke was […]
With neither team scoring through nine innings on Thursday afternoon, the White Sox lineup had a little more juice in extra innings to outlast the Yankees in a 2-1 walk-off win. The decisive plate appearance was a bases-loaded free pass from Tristan Peters against a clearly gassed Fernando Cruz. In a game in which neither […]
The White Sox entered Thursday leading the American League with 4.8 runs scored per game; an important detail to file away whenever they do something like get shutout for nine innings in a crucial series finale against one of the best teams in baseball.
After winning their last two games against the Yankees in their last at-bat, they also lead the AL with nine walk-off victories. And because Fernando Cruz threw four-straight bad ones to Tristan Peters with the bases loaded and two outs in th...
Once again, the Chicago White Sox showed heart after a rough patch of baseball.
Davis Martin feels a sort of pride about weathering a four-run first to deliver six innings in an eventual victory on Wednesday night that only starting pitchers can really understand, and truly believes his mechanics are returning to their first half norms.
Beginning with 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball against these same Yankees, Sean Burke is on a seven-outing streak that's established him as the best thing the White Sox have going in their rotation: 44 2/3 IP, 32 H, 8 ER, 7 BB, 57 K, 4 HR,...
The initial goal on this series finale in the South Side of Chicago before heading over to Wrigley Field for the weekend is to play more than just the first inning, offensively. There are many reasons why the Yankees should lament their 6-5 loss on Wednesday, but none bigger than going nine full innings without […]