White Sox beat Royals, hold a magic number of 2 to clinch a playoff berth
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Rahimi and Grody, midday, 10 a.m. to two on the score. As this one a lot closer now here in the ninth. In the air to right field, it is Peters. And that's gonna do it. Light Sox slug their way to a 14-11 win and take game one of this series versus the Royals.
It's really nice to see the White Sox explode a little bit with runs. That deficit was much larger at one point in the game. Things got a little tricky, just a little bit sweaty when Luis Castillo allowed a grand slam to Vinny Pasquantino in the ninth inning of the game. But the White Sox win fourteen eleven over the Royals as we welcome you back in to Orhemian Grodia win a four three the score. Why? Why are ye giggling?
You're like, but the White Sox win. And that's that's pretty much what happened. I think it got to the point in the game where you're like, Okay, some leave before they change the score again.
Right.
Fourteen to eleven was as stressful as that score sounds to say.
It really was. And
what did I say? I wanted Anthony K to stay in and Will Venable's like, Nope. No, nope. He has Layla, you cannot get what you want. Taking him out after four.
He has not gone, Anthony Kay. He has not gone more than four and two thirds since August twentieth. Five straight starts. Last night, four innings, four runs, seven hits, four strikeouts, one walk. And I mean that's really we're gonna talk about the offense because that's the story, but I guess the the if we're looking at the socks through the lens of the playoffs, Anthony Kay is not a bad place to start here either because you just It's g it's going to the way that Will Venable has handled the pitching staff all season is the way that they're gonna handle it in the postseason, as in the way they're handling it tonight. Brian Hudson, it was announced, will be the opener tonight against the Royals, and then it'll be Eric Fetty time.
It's maximum effort when it comes to pitching. Good luck to Will Venable.
Well and also what'd you say they slip in an opener? They slipped in the opener. I know. I
know, because it was Fetty. Like I never on my board here, and you guys always make fun of my board. Yeah. Fetty. Right. Cause I'll I'll put the starter for the next day down and then duh they slip in the opener and I gotta change my board for the next day. But that is that is the White Sox in this year. Once once Davis Martin started to lose a little bit of his edge, once Sean Burke started to lose a little bit of his edge. You could even put Anthony Kay into that relative to the beginning of the season.
Yeah, and he was a bit of a revelation, you know, he had ha he had come out with a really nice season for him, just showing a lot of improvement and then I think
he was a bonus, yeah. But also But also
again, the miles on the arms, you know, everybody hitting the career highs for innings. That's gonna add up and we see that yet again. He was out after only sixty five pitches. Uh by the way, how about my unconscious pick about offensive success, Randall Gritchick coming through for me yesterday? My goodness.
Three run blast.
Yeah. Four for four for five.
Oh both of our guys came through because I bit I went out of my way yesterday. Moody did have a home run. Chase freaking Mydroth. This guy has been terrific this year. And I remember beginning of the season, I'll at least point the thumb and myself like I don't know if this guy's part of the core. Like when we start to identify what the core of the White Sox is going forward, I felt like he was a fragile piece of the core.
A lot of people thought that. Yeah. Or at least a transitional piece.
Exactly. And I don't know that that's the case, man. Like sixteen home runs this year. He hit five last year in a hundred and twenty two games. I went back and looked at his minor league numbers. He did have some pop, and these are in fewer games. He had in the minors, he had a ten home run season, he had a nine home run season, a seven home run season. So this is actually not outlandish. I think he's probably still overperforming. Like this minor might be a career year for him in home runs, possibly.
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