The White Sox thought they were done with Randy Arozarena. With him just dealt to Seattle, it turns out they are not. | Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Drew Thorpe gets to avoid Randy Arozarena! It’s Drew Thorpe Day! Tonight's #WhiteSox starters vs. Seattle: pic.twitter.com/K9pwDWmzGf — Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) July 26, 2024 There is so little to be excited about this year, but three White Sox starting pitchers are the start and pretty much the end of the list. Erick Fedde came back from overseas and has provided the best WAR on the club. Garrett Crochet is right there behind him. And Drew ..read more

On this day 108 years ago, Eddie Cicotte was nearly perfect. | Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Eddie Cicotte falls two batters short of perfection 1916 Facing just 28 batters in the game, Eddie Cicotte fired a one-hitter in defeating the Yankees, 2-0, in front of 6,000 at Comiskey Park. Two batters plays kept the game from perfection: In the fourth, Cicotte walked Les Nunamaker, but he was erased when Ray Schalk caught him stealing to end the frame In the top of the fifth, Wally Pipp broke up the no-hitter with a single, then got caught off ..read more

Sam Hodde/Getty Images yes 51 games under yes -202 run differential yes 11-game losing streak yes a 15th sweep yes it’s July 25 The White Sox got out of the gate FAST with shutouts ... sorry, with BEING shut out. But since then, those one-run games have piled up, and have taken a commanding lead on shutouts, 18 games to 12. Either way, that makes 30 games where the offense hasn’t conjured more than one run ... and 27 wins, total. Oh, today Andrew Benintendi, batting .196, pinch-hit in the ninth inning of a one-run game. Top Play When birthday boy Korey Lee opened the scoring in the third inni ..read more

Sam Hodde/Getty Images Trying to avoid a 15th sweep The White Sox try to avoid their 15th sweep of the season today. Today's starting lineup ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/aMvrz5CozO — Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) July 25, 2024 By no means is this their worst lineup of the season, but it’s probably typical? Let’s take a look: Baseball-Reference By OPS+ the White Sox have two above-average hitters, one just barely in Tommy Pham, and no one else even close. ONE player has a K/BB rate of better than 2:1. The collective WAR of the bats is getting worse, not better, and now sits at -5.3 as a team; the 2024 ..read more

On this day 57 years ago, Ken Berry made history for the White Sox with a dramatic home run. | Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports For J.C. Martin and Ken Berry, back-to-back is a matter of fact 1925 White Sox catcher and future Hall-of-Famer Ray Schalk played in his 1,576th game, setting the major league record at the time. He played his entire career (except for five games) with the Sox, from 1912-28. 1954 In the first game of a twin bill at Boston, White Sox pitcher Jack Harshman set the franchise record by striking out 16 Red Sox. Harshman, a converted first baseman, was taught a “slip pitch ..read more

Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports yes 50 games under yes -201 run differential yes multiple 10+ losing streaks yes another series loss yes it’s July 24 This is the first time in franchise history a White Sox team has had losing streaks of 10 or more games in one season. The White Sox are now 50 games worse than .500. Yes, this game was closer than the final score indicates. Yes, it still counts as a loss Top Play The biggest WPA swing in fact moved this game from a likely White Sox win to a Rangers one, and for good: Adolis García doubled in Corey Seager on a 16.3% WPA play. Wait, doubles on a gr ..read more

Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports Five losses away from a losing season ... and we’re still in July Here we are, back at it again, giving hope to another time that probably should have packed its bags on the season already. The third of this four-game set pits Chris Flexen against Nathan Eovaldi in as disadvantageous a matchup as you’re gonna get in this series. Sorry to keep beating this but Brooks Baldwin is starting his sixth straight game and it’s sort of astounding the White Sox are sticking by him for a week’s worth of games in spite of a slow start. That Lenyn Sosa and José Rodríguez didn’t ..read more

Joe Crede connected on a sayonara home run to beat Detroit and put the White Sox back in first place on this day, 20 years ago. | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Joe Crede! (walks it off) 1960 In the first game of a doubleheader at New York, future Hall-of-Famer Nellie Fox banged out his 2,000th career hit. On the afternoon he’d have a pair in the 6-3 White Sox victory. The hit came in the first inning, on a single to left field off of Jim Coates. The Sox split the doubleheader for the day. 1968 White Sox relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm took a 2-1 loss in a doubleheader nightcap against Oakland, but ..read more

Sam Hodde/Getty Images The Rangers win, and the Memphis Rags make their national debut The 2024 White Sox season slogs on. Pedro Grifol, in his apathetic, monotone voice that displays less humanity than an AI skipper, makes the bizarre claim that the team is almost there. John Schriffen calls another pitch “juicy.” We are in baseball hell. The White Sox are the final square of one-ply toilet paper that you can’t tear off the cardboard roll in the office bathroom. The 49 Western bus that your transit tracker app said would be at your stop 32 minutes ago. Having a headache while the preacher on ..read more

The White Sox offense is so bad, a man rescued after getting lost in Big Bend National Park for three weeks suited up tonight for the Rangers got 23 outs against four hits and a run. | Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports Benintendi homers, still hitting .199 Seriously, what are we supposed to say here? Jon Gray shook off all signs of proper grooming as well as any threat from the White Sox offense, suffocating the Chisox on four hits and one run over 7 2⁄3 innings. There was also terrible fundamental play in the game, as Korey Lee, Garret Crochet and Nicky Lopez got completely flummoxed at a double s ..read more