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1 week ago

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**πŸ”₯ THE CYCLE. On the South Side. Let's go.**Forget the last week β€” Friday night at Rate Field, this team reminded the whole city why you don't sleep on the White Sox. Final: **14-1** over the Athletics, and Tristan Peters was the story of the night, capping off the **cycle** with an RBI single in an eight-run seventh inning that turned a good game into a laugher.Single, double, triple, homer β€” the kid did it all in one night, and he saved the exclamation point for a seventh inning that just wouldn't stop. Eight runs in one frame. Once that inning got rolling, there was no putting it out.This win comes at the perfect time. The Sox stumbled into the break dropping six of eight, including a rough sweep at the hands of Boston, and there were real questions about the offense going stone cold. Friday night answered those questions loud and clear. And the timing gets even better β€” **Munetaka Murakami is back.** Activated off the IL after 35 games lost to a hamstring strain, and the middle of this lineup instantly looks different with him back in it. Vargas said it best: he means a lot to this lineup, and not just for what he does at the plate.Fifteen hits. Fourteen runs. A statement, not a fluke. Heading into the All-Star break tied atop the AL Central with Cleveland, this is exactly the kind of game you want fresh in your head over the next few days β€” not the Boston skid.We've earned every bit of skepticism this franchise has given us over the years. But nights like this? This is why you don't give up on this team. Peters is turning into a name this whole city is going to know, and we saw it happen from the South#whitesoxs#mlbnewso#chicagohitesox #mlbnews #chicago ... See MoreSee Less
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1 week ago

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πŸ»πŸ’” Hunter Greene just turned our lineup into strikeout practice. 12 K's, 3 hits allowed, and we never had a chance. 4-0. Ballgame.Struck out 16 times as a team β€” a season high. Ninth shutout loss of the year, tied for second-most in MLB. This isn't bad luck anymore, it's a trend, and it's a problem.Shota was fine early β€” one run through five β€” but the seventh blew up on him and Woodford in his Cubs debut. De La Cruz went deep and tripled, Bleday added a two-run shot, Steer racked up three hits. Reds out-hit us 13-4. Not close.Seiya had two hits. That's the highlight reel tonight.We were rolling β€” 7-3 in our last 10, just took two of three in Baltimore β€” and this is exactly the kind of game you can't drop against a last-place team before the break.Javy Assad's on the mound tomor#CubsT#mlbnewse#GoCubsGoo Cubs. βšΎπŸ”΅#Cubs #mlbnews #GoCubsGo ... See MoreSee Less
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1 week ago

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A stinker of a day for Chicago baseball teams yesterday. Cubs bullpen blows it and the White Sox went a whole series without an extra base hit and get swept! Cubs travel to Cincy and the A's roll into town to face the Sox tonig#Cubs##whitesoxt#mlbbhighlightsights ... See MoreSee Less
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1 week ago

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**SOX DROP ANOTHER TO BOSTON, 5-0. SERIES GOES TO THE RED SOX.**Well, South Side. That one hurt in a way that's harder to explain than a blowout. Red Sox 5, White Sox 0, and the ugly part isn't even the score β€” it's that our offense went quiet for a run of five straight innings while Boston's bullpen just mowed us down like it was nothing.**Davis Martin's slide continues**Let's start here because it's the story of the night. Davis Martin β€” the guy who was our first-half MVP, no argument β€” has now gone five straight starts without a win. Tonight he was cruising early, set the Red Sox down in order the first two innings, looked like the ace we know. Then the third and fourth innings happened: five runs on six hits, three walks, and a wild pitch that let a run score on top of it. That's not one bad pitch. That's a start unraveling in real time, and it's the kind of thing that should worry this coaching staff heading into the second half. Martin's stuff is there. Something else isn't.**Bennett shut us down cold**Credit where it's due, and it pains me to give it: Jake Bennett was terrific. Seven shutout innings, four hits, four strikeouts, one walk. Rookie lefty, first time seeing our lineup, and he had an answer for everybody. Weissert and MorΓ‘n came in and finished the job, and between the three of them, Boston retired 13 batters in a row at one stretch. Our offense put exactly one runner on base over the final five innings. One. That's not a slump, that's a shutdown, and it's the kind of night that makes you go back and look at this lineup's approach with runners in scoring position.**The bigger picture**This wasn't just a loss β€” it snapped something. We'd won 10 straight home series on the South Side. Ten. Hadn't dropped a series at Rate Field since late April against Washington, and even those two losses went extra innings. Boston came in and took this one clean, and now they've won five in a row, 10 of their last 12, clawing back toward .500 like a team that suddenly remembered how to play. Good for them, I guess. Doesn't make it sting less watching it happen in our building.**Where we go from here**23,973 people showed up on the South Side on a Wednesday night to watch this team, and that's the part that never stops meaning something to me. This organization owes those people better than watching a five-start winless streak from a guy who was lights-out in April and May. The rebuild's foundation is still there β€” the lineup has shown it can hit, the bullpen's had its moments β€” but nights like this are a reminder that "first in the AL Central" doesn't mean the work is done. Not close.Get back at it tomorrow afternoon. Series finale, Sandoval making his Red Sox debut against us β€” let's not make his day easy.Let's go.⚫βšͺ #WhiteSox #SouthSide #RateField ... See MoreSee Less
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