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4 days ago | southsidesox.com | Chrystal O'Keefe

Abigail Dean/Getty Images Shane Smith dominated the Marlins through six innings, but a sleepy offense and ice-cold bullpen ruined the fun. The White Sox lost game two, effectively ending Pope Weekend a day early. Xavier Edwards started the game for the Marlins with a single, and after a wild pitch and a ground out, he made his way to third. Unfortunately for him, Shane Smith was not messing around and struck out the next two batters.

4 days ago | southsidesox.com | Chrystal O'Keefe

Michael Reaves/Getty Images If you haven’t heard, or bypassed the cover photo, Tim Elko makes his major league debut tonight for the White Sox. Perhaps it was an act of God, because the new Holy man, Pope Leo XIV, was impatiently waiting to see the young slugger. Does the Vatican have CHSN? Who knows. The White Sox are fresh off of a win, making me believe the City Connects are good luck. It helps that the Marlins are also not great, but that isn’t as salacious. Now, back to Elko.

5 days ago | southsidesox.com | Mark Liptak

Steve Snowden/Getty Images With news of Chet Lemon’s passing on Thursday, our Mark Liptak was in touch quickly from the road, taking time out of his broadcasting work to share his interview with Chet from 2004. It follows here, in edited form. Chet Lemon is another one of those very good White Sox players that few other fans knew about, primarily because for most of his career in Chicago he played on some bad, nondescript clubs.

6 days ago | southsidesox.com | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach

Sebastian Widmann/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images Charlotte Knights, Memphis Redbirds (Postponed) Columbus Clingstones 2, Birmingham Barons 0The Barons and Clingstones were locked in a classic pitchers' duel throughout most of the contest. Starting for the Barons, Jake Palisch was nothing short of masterful. The righthander, signed as a free agent out of Texas A&M by the Sox in 2022 and making his first start of the year, carved through the Clingstones' lineup with surgical precision.

6 days ago | southsidesox.com | Leigh Allan

Matt Dirksen/Getty Images As a general rule, when you lose a baseball game by 10 runs, there wasn’t really a defining moment. But in this case, there kind of was. Coming into today, the White Sox had lost the first three games of the series in Kansas City by a total of 9-4, never so far out of the games that the situation was hopeless. Well, until the end, anyway. And even this one was close until a series of events in the fifth inning.