White Sox avoid sweep thanks to return of Munetaka Murakami home run hitting

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Rahimi Harrison-Grody 0:04

You're listening to Rahimi Harrison-Grody on Sports Radio 104.3 The Score. Doors closing.

Unknown 0:14

The Sox are coming off their worst loss in weeks. Tonight would be a good time for a moonshot.

Bruce Levine 0:20

I think he's going to hit two. He looks close. He looks close. And I think, more importantly, no matter what I think, the White Sox need him to start carrying the offense again.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 0:33

by the White Sox.

Vinny Rotino 0:59

Would you say his home runs have provided a sanctuary for the White Sox?

Mark Grote 1:04

Sanctuary.

Vinny Rotino 1:04

12-3, the win taking game three of that series. The White Sox dropped the first two. You heard CHSN, John Triffin, Steve Stone on the call. And then also Bruce Levine, close, close with the prediction. Wrong day, right prediction.

How did Munetaka Murakami’s two-homer game stop the White Sox from getting swept?

Vinny Rotino 1:21

How about that?

Mark Grote 1:22

Is it weird to say that Munataka Murakami needed a two-home run, six-RBI day? I think he needed a two-home run, six-RBI day just to remind him and everybody else of who he is because he had been slow with the power up until that point.

Unknown 1:38

I have power.

Mark Grote 1:38

Yes, you do, sir.

Vinny Rotino 1:40

On your bobblehead day, no less.

Mark Grote 1:42

Unbelievable.

Vinny Rotino 1:43

That made it even more fun.

Mark Grote 1:45

Yeah.

Vinny Rotino 1:45

The White Sox needed the win over the Astros.

Mark Grote 1:47

Yeah, that's more like it.

Vinny Rotino 1:48

After what had happened, we talked about this in our meeting a little bit, was did it feel like that 9-5 loss was so brutal because they were up 5-0, you get that calamitous inning that ends up helping lose them that ballgame. And then you fall by the final of 9-5 after that eight-run sixth inning by the Astros where the wheels just absolutely fell off. And then the next day, you end up losing. And Ryan Porth asked, you know, do you think that that loss was begotten of the first one in the series? And I don't know that he was wrong in that idea.

Mark Grote 2:21

Then what was the 12-3 win begotten of? Did they finally get pissed off? Revenge. Were they finally like, all right, we don't suck. That's enough. It's so funny, man.

Vinny Rotino 2:31

Well, Mune and the bobblehead vibe, yeah, pretty much.

Mark Grote 2:35

Yeah, true, right. That did set up a really nice vibe. That's a great point. But it's so, like, when the White Sox... start to lose their grip just a little bit. And there have been a few times this year where I felt like they were losing their grip. When I talk to White Sox fans, I happen to have had lunch with a couple of, well, really good baseball fans on Sunday.

Vinny Rotino 2:54

Your baseball luncheon?

Mark Grote 2:55

My baseball luncheon, exactly.

Vinny Rotino 2:57

Sounds lovely.

Mark Grote 2:58

And everybody does this with the White Sox. Man, I don't know about the Sox. It looks like they're starting to lose it. It's such a fine line. The confidence line is a fine line with the White Sox. And it all goes back to the fact that this is all found money for the White Sox this year. And the White Sox are acting like that, too, by saying, I think it was per Bob Nightingale, right, that they will not trade a top 10 prospect this season. So I think that they are being protective of their season and being protective of their future because nobody saw it coming and nobody really knows how to act.

Vinny Rotino 3:27

Yeah, it's still the for real test. Even now, even on the 27th of July, there's still the inherent for real test.

Mark Grote 3:37

Isn't that the truth?

Vinny Rotino 3:38

And they have done their part in not being streaky with the win streaks or the losing streaks and being pretty steady. People's slumps have not been exaggerated. The whole offense was hitting yesterday at a pretty impressive clip when you consider not just Mune, but the entire team. And then Mune hits. It's his first time in a couple months. He gets two home runs. And that is what capped off the day.

Mark Grote 4:02

And it's pretty amazing because overall, it was not a good weekend for the White Sox. Two bad losses. They lose two out of three at home in a homestand, which I was predicting that the Sox would get to 10 games over 500 because I thought they would be inspired the way they were inspired when they played against the Dodgers. But the Sox now, after the weekend, they are two and a half games into first place.

Vinny Rotino 4:26

Yeah, it starts to get stressful at this time, and you are waiting to see what other moves are going to be made by teams in the division. And yeah, here's the quote from Bob Nightingale.