a couple of days after he was forced<\/a> to leave the team’s April 1st matchup with ankle soreness. He is now listed as having an ankle sprain. <\/p>\nThe decision to move Murray up to the bigs came as a slight surprise. Sam Antonacci has followed up a strong spring with an equally strong Triple-A start. Heck, the infielder had even begun to appear in the outfield for the Charlotte Knights, flashing a level of versatility that only strengthens his case for a major league call-up. <\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Murray was also in the running for one of the team’s final roster spots in Arizona. He had a pair of home runs in spring training to go along with seven RBIs and three walks. Likewise, Murray’s defense has long been one of his best attributes. He is a utility man who has suited up all over the infield. In fact, Murray has already played at each infield spot during his first six games with Charlotte. <\/p>\n
With that in mind, it’s no wonder that Murray’s first big play for the White Sox came on the diamond and not at the plate. The Sox were up 1-0 on the Blue Jays in the top of the third inning on Sunday. Toronto had the bases loaded with two outs and Addison Barger at the plate. The third baseman proceeded to send a hard-hit grounder to the right of second base. Not only did Murray track it down, but he proceeded to spin into the outfield while completing a remarkably accurate throw to Munetaka Murakami at first for the out.<\/p>\n
It was a remarkable defensive play, especially considering the stakes. The White Sox faithful went absolutely nuts, and the same went for starting pitcher Davis Martin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the Chicago White Sox series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays, they made a big roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-665934","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-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-white-sox","14":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356197975476922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665934","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=665934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}