White Sox catcher Kyle Teel opens up about his high ankle sprain

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Rahimi Harrison-Grody 0:00

Rahimi Harrison-Grody.

Vinny Rotino 0:02

AJ, how are you?

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 0:03

Good. I can't believe how fancy y'all are now. I mean, it used to just be a radio call-in show. Now I got to put clothes on to do this thing. I can't peak too early. I got to kind of try to control my peaking. So, you know, it's a little early to already put a shirt and a hat on. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. Oh, man, this is not a good sign. Kyle Teal will have to be helped off the field. He is having trouble putting weight on that left leg.

Vinny Rotino 0:37

Yeah, it was horrible when we saw it, that call courtesy of John Schriffen, Dan Plesak also on the call down in Arlington. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score, and it was one of those days where you were thrilled to see how well the White Sox won, touched up Jacob deGrom, ended up winning game one of that series by a final of 10-3, and then you turn around, and it was injury to insult yesterday. Teal goes down, the Sox lose 10-0, And in the meantime, you're trying to kind of sort out the details from a game that I think told us a lot about this team. When you consider number one, Noah Schultz was on the mound. You're trying to separate that information. He goes three and two thirds, gives up 11 hits.

Vinny Rotino 1:20

First home run to a lefty this season in Brandon Nemo. Five earned runs for Schultz on his ledger. And then Teal, you find out the good news is it's not as bad as a lot of people feared. People went to the Achilles, and I see why. I see why you did it. Always good to wait for the news.

What happened to Kyle Teel during the game and when did he get helped off the field?

Vinny Rotino 1:35

You find out it's an ankle sprain, but the problem is the worse the ankle sprain, the worse the time is. He's out six to 12 weeks. 12 weeks is the end of the regular season, friends. It's like that.

Marshall Harris 1:46

It's also the end of what would be the wild card round if you end up there. Yes. And it's really disappointing just because if you look at what he's done this season, the man's only played 19 games. He's had a couple of setbacks and now this coming out of the World Baseball Classic and I think that that is just a really big blow to what I believe made the White Sox so special this year is that from top to bottom, that was a full lineup. Now, you didn't necessarily see it on display last night. They had three hits. And I looked up, and every time I looked, I was like, are they going to get another hit?

Vinny Rotino 2:23

They had what they did to the Rangers the Rangers did to them.

Mark Grote 2:27

It was a get back. They got their get back. They got their get back immediately.

Marshall Harris 2:31

Look how far you've come in a year, Mark Grody.

Mark Grote 2:32

See what I'm saying? I evolve. I am always getting better. I don't give up as I get older. I get better. Down south, we say get your lick back. Oh, wow. That's next level.

Vinny Rotino 2:41

Let me just continue to focus on... Let's also separate that that is the south and not Texas because I hadn't heard of either of these things. I had not. We just called it revenge. Also, credit to our texter 630. John should have done what you always do when a player gets injured in Texas. Go down to the clubhouse and check on him.

Mark Grote 3:00

Oh, man.

Vinny Rotino 3:01

Put your headset down. Wait, did that happen in Texas?

Mark Grote 3:04

Let me tell you about Todd Frazier.

Vinny Rotino 3:05

Such a good call.

How did the hosts immediately react to Teel's injury and initial fears about Achilles vs ankle?

Vinny Rotino 3:07

And?

Mark Grote 3:09

I'll use the 19 games a little bit differently than you just did, Marshall, with Kyle Teal. And I'll say, you have gotten to where you are in this White Sox season without Kyle Teal, okay? I mean, just the 19 games, he's 589 OPS, only hitting 190, does have 14 RBIs this year, but you have been fine without Kyle Teal. Are you better with Kyle Teal? Of course you're better with Kyle Teal. But I don't look at this as some sort of awful, damaging thing for the rest of the season because they have done what they have done, essentially, without Kyle Teal.

Marshall Harris 3:45

See, you say that, but I want to remind you of a couple of things. even though they have been in first place in a bad American League, they're only six games over .500. They're 11-8 in games that Kyle Till has played. And while you look at his overall numbers and you don't think much of them, one of the reasons he makes such a big difference, even though he's batting under .200 on the season, is because he has been big when it mattered most.