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Wynn Sportsbook Odds: White Sox -213 Oakland +195 Over 8 1/2 -115 Under 8 1/2 -105 Pitching Matchup: RHP Dylan Cease 3-3 4.04 110 K vs. LHP Kyle Muller 1-4 8.04 ERA 33 K Starting Lineups CWS Batters AVG HR RBI SB 1Benintendi LF .287 1 21 9 2Anderson, Ti SS .226 0 11 8 3Robert Jr. CF .270 24 46 6 4Jiménez, E RF .265 10 34 0 5Vaughn 1B .252 12 50 0 6Burger 3B .219 17 37 1 7Grandal DH .258 6 20 0 8Zavala C .165 6 15 1 9Remillard 2B .394 0 6 2 OAK Batters AVG HR RBI SB 1Kemp 2B .187 3 14 6 2Bleday LF .203 5 12 3 3Pérez, C C .238 5 17 0 4Brown, S RF .201 6 19 2 5Peterson 3B .214 5 22 9 6Noda 1B .226 8 31 2 7Diaz, J DH .211 4 8 0 8Wade SS .235 0 1 4 9Ruiz, E CF .261 1 33 41

RHP Dylan Cease on the mound today for the White Sox. Oakland’s original listed SP, RH Kaprielian, was placed on the 15 Day IL. A LHS may potentially go today. Its time for the Sox to open up a can of whup ass and begin a winning streak NOW. Starting Lineups pending. This is White Sox Baseball!

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Lynn would cuss him out if he did.

The best Sox can be is 3 1/2 entering Monday. The Sox need to go 4-2 the remaining six against Oakland to win the season series. Oakland is now 4-6 .400 vs. AL Central. NL Central (6-6 .500); NL West (1-2 .333); AL East (5-15 .250); NL East (2-10 .167); AL West (4-23 .148). Oakland won the season series over three current or former NL 1st place teams: Atlanta (2-1); Milwaukee (3-0) & Pittsburgh (2-1). Oakland leads the season series against Kansas City (2-1 with 3 to play) and Chicago (1-0 with 6 to play).

They need position players as well. Zavala (49 games) and Remillard (11 games) are tied for 5th among Sox position players with a 0.4 fWAR. https://www.fangraphs.com/teams/white-sox

Time will tell whether Beane's $56.8M team wins the season series versus Hahn's White Sox.

Oakland Attendance Tonight: 14,181 10,149 April 19 Philadelphia 11,060 April 27 Tampa Bay 11,468 May 3 Minnesota 11,900 May 18 Cleveland 12,241 May 17 Cleveland 12,542 April 18 Philadelphia 13,094 May 2 Minnesota 13,794 April 16 Baltimore There will be many more the next three months.

Well, one team can play defense tonight.

Would have been tied with an Elvis hustle and a fresh reliever in the 9th.

Two nights ago, this same team was beat by a perfect game, by a pitcher who gave up 10 runs his previous start.

I hope someone asks Pedro in the post game about Tim batting second tonight.

Frazier here for Tim?

White Sox senior vice president Rick Hahn said he was "in a little bit of disbelief" regarding Shohei Ohtani's decision to sign with the Dodgers on Tuesday. Chicago was among the main suitors for Ohtani prior to Tuesday's decision. "If the offer that I'm seeing, or the acceptance of the offer I'm seeing is true, actually our offer had the opportunity for Shohei to surpass that," Hahn told reporters at the White Sox's Spring Training facility in Glendale, AZ. "But in the end we went after the guy, obviously we didn't get him, and we're disappointed."

Tony Kemp is 80 years old, and has a triple and stolen base.

If you fire Hahn, they will come.

Oakland bullpen guys Rico Garcia (15.00) & Shintaro Fujinami (10.04) shut down the Sox, Remillard double the only thing separating perfection.

Yes, Oakland has 3 good plus players to the White Sox 1. 1+ fWAR through half the season (2 fWAR pace for an average starting player): 3.4 Robert 1.4 Noda 1.1 Rooker 1.0 Peterson

Position Player Team fWAR: Chicago 4.3 vs, Oakland 2.5

If he takes scissors pregame to everyone's 1983 uniforms, all of this will have been worth it.

Colson Montgomery and Yasmani Grandal for Perez, Greinke, Lyles and Dozier wouldn't surprise me. Hahn's chef kiss. And Perez clobbers another home run.

Sox OPS Leaders: Robert .889 Remillard .860 Vaughn .785