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Don\u2019t let the close game fool you. The White Sox were pretty bad, choosing a good time to minimize the exposure of being outclassed by the worst team in baseball. There were errors, wild pitching, and some horrid baserunning that helped the Good Guys snatch defeat from victory. It\u2019s only February 23, sure, but then again the numerous flubs weren\u2019t only coming from players with three digits on their uniforms.<\/p>\n
Presumptive Opening Day starter Shane Smith got things off to a rocky start, drilling Brenton Doyle with his third pitch of the game, and was knocked from of the box with two outs. The righty yielded two runs on his watch, the big blow a golfed RBI double by Willi Castro:<\/p>\n
After Smith hit a second batter in the inning and departed for reliever Jacob Heatherly, it was Kyle Teel\u2019s heel turn: Yet another error from the young catcher, as his attempt to nail Troy Johnston (Smith\u2019s second HBP victim of the frame) stealing second led to Castro trotting home from second base.<\/p>\n
There is so much to love about Teel. I\u2019m just not sure his catching is one of them.<\/p>\n
The White Sox, from this 3-0 hole, chipped away before finally tying the game, 4-4, in the eighth. But even in that triumph came tragedy: Mario Camilletti was thrown out at home trying to score from second on a Ryan Breaux double to left in the seventh, killing a rally with the White Sox still down, 4-3. And even the game-tying play one frame later came out of Bizarro world, as Tristan Peters sac-flied into a double play with Caden Connor trying to advance to second base as Matt Hogan crossed home.<\/p>\n
From there, it was a 1-2-3 ninth for the White Sox, followed by a 1-2-BOOM sayonara homer from Veen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wait, you don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about? Well, MLB returned to the theoretical on Monday, as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,38719,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-589554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox-scores-standings","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-white-sox","15":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116123963978648632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}