Leigh Allan

4 weeks ago | southsidesox.com | Leigh Allan

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Having Wednesday’s game against the Mets moved up because a severe storm forecast for New York paid off for the Sox, as both starting pitchers got discombobulated by the time switch, but the Mets starter more so. Today’s game is moved up fewer hours, but the Sox can hope for the same impact.

1 month ago | southsidesox.com | Leigh Allan

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images If you’re going to charge people to see a game most Little League teams would be ashamed of, you might as well as least win it. Which the White Sox did, thanks to a Rangers level of incompetence they couldn’t hope to match. At least the Sox took advantage of the handouts they were given, which Texas mostly did not. In the end, the box score shows the Sox with 14 hits, which is certainly nice, and 10 runs, which is even nicer. How they got there? Well, never mind.

1 month ago | southsidesox.com | Leigh Allan

Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images It looked like the White Sox were going to have a big pitching edge today, but that was before Jonathan Cannon got scratched because of lower back tightness and Bryse Wilson got the emergency starting assignment. Wilson hasn’t pitched in 10 days, and last time out gave up seven earned runs in 5 1⁄3 against the Reds, raising his ERA to a nice, even 6.00. That may give a slight edge to Rangers starter Jack Leiter, who has problems of his own.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Leigh Allan

It looked like the White Sox were going to have a big pitching edge today, but that was before Jonathan Cannon got scratched because of lower back tightness and Bryse Wilson got the emergency starting assignment. Wilson hasn’t pitched in 10 days, and last time out gave up seven earned runs in 5 1⁄3 against the Reds, raising his ERA to a nice, even 6.00. That may give a slight edge to Rangers starter Jack Leiter, who has problems of his own.

1 month ago | southsidesox.com | Leigh Allan

News the White Sox optioned to Charlotte both Andrew Vaughn (five years too late) and Tim Elko (at least a month too soon) conjures up the vision of a defensive alignment that calls for pitchers to run over to first base really, really quickly on every ground ball. The Sox lack the creativity for that, though, so they’ll probably just have Lenyn Sosa play first more, which improves the defense at both first, where Vaughn is a horror show, and second, where Sosa is terrible.