It’s not often you get saved by the Bell twice with a few minutes, but it happened to Mike Vasil and White Sox this afternoon and made it possible for a come-from-slightly-behind victory. The third win of the spring wasn’t as definitive as the first two, and it was as much the result of Milwaukee ineptitude as White Sox successes, but winning games the other team is trying to hand to you is always a good idea.
The Brewers, who had most of their regulars playing against Kansas City in the other half of a split-squad day, took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first — but it should have been much more, as Vasil’s wildness loaded the bases with nobody out. He then got a strikeout on pitches right down the middle and induced a pop-up on his 26th pitch of the inning, before giving way to Luke Bell, who knocked in a run on a HBP but then ended the threat on a force out.