{"id":813271,"date":"2026-09-24T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/813271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:00:32","slug":"game-thread-white-sox-81-77-at-royals-68-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/813271\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread: White Sox (81-77) at Royals (68-90)"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a playoff spot on the line, the White Sox<\/a> are desperate for a win and to finish off the Royals for good in this midday matchup.<\/p>\n

David Sandlin is on the mound for the White Sox. Ideally, he can eat some innings for the overtaxed bullpen, since Will Venable<\/a> is busy setting them up to fail in the opener role. My two favorite Italians are at the top of the lineup, with Sam Antonacci leading off and Kyle Teel<\/a> batting second and catching. Andrew Benintendi<\/a> will DH, batting fifth.<\/p>\n

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Randy Dobnak<\/a> (3-4, 3.08 ERA) will get the start for the Royals. We’ll see their usual lineup and hope the likes of Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> and Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> won’t drill our pitching again today.<\/p>\n

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Grab some lunch and mute your work email, because first pitch is at 1:10 p.m. CT. You can watch on CHSN or listen on ESPN Chicago 1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a playoff spot on the line, the White Sox are desperate for a win and to finish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,19259,4,13368,2122,396,2562,998],"class_list":["post-813271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-david-sandlin","tag-mlb","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-the-royals","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117327326713219255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813271","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=813271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}