The White Sox lace ’em up again tonight, running out one of their stronger starters, Davis Martin. Good thing, because things have taken quite a turn as the Dog Days start dogging the Sox.
Chicago is Game 2 into a 17-game stretch without a break, so it’s imperative Martin be efficient with his pitches and get deep (by Chisox standards, into the sixth) tonight. The good news is he is coming off of 16 outs without a hit in his most recent start, and against a Twins offense not the most prodigious (pls
ignore the nine-spot it slapped on the Sox on Friday) Davis is in position to repeat.
Mick Abel starts for the Twins, and he’s a righty. That’s about all I got.
Will Venable has installed Kyle Teel atop the order tonight, cheerily I’m certain. It’s an odd move, but then, this team has no true leadoff hitter. Chase Meidroth falling off has sort of killed him as an option.
Korey Lee was promoted yesterday but sits a second straight game. I know there’s no great clamor for his bat in the lineup, but doesn’t it make better sense to give him some run? It surely kills Jerry Reinsdorf to be paying Andrew Benintendi $18 million per to play baseball seasons in Chicago for this and two more years, but we don’t need to see the guy in the outfield, or at DH. Edgar Quero, on the heels of a phenomenal game on Friday, sits, so even the logic of bringing Lee up to cover for Quero and Teel in the same lineup held for all of … one game.
Good news for you, I am not writing the recap, so all garrulousness ends as of first pitch, at 6:10 p.m. CT.
