Autumn Dreamin

Terrible position to put Leasure in his first day back up. And Vargas whiffing two separate chances to end the inning with a popup is rough.

Miguel...

There's 10 division games between today and the next off day, tough call to go to the pen after 4 here when they already used Hudson too.

Looks like White Sox Houser today

Should be a better environment for him. Agree that he seemed like a decent guy personally.

On the season, Houser has allowed a 1.100+ OPS to lefties and a .958 OPS at Oracle. But he's been much better in May (.591 OPS against in 3 starts) though a .167 BABIP suggests some luck there. He's also been better in day games than night games. He's got a higher walk rate and lower K rate compared to his time as a Sox, so there should be pitches to hit. Sheets hit one into the Cove off him, would be fun to see Mune or Montgomery do the same.

Cool to see Davis Martin (7-1) matching last year's win total (which led the team, tied with Smith) in May.

All 5 hits came in the one big inning, but you can't argue with results

Forgot how annoying Arraez is at the plate lol

That was scary for a moment

WP costs a run there, but he battled through it. He's earned a night of the offense picking him up anyway.

Sox were being no hit for the first 3 innings lol Hope Davis is staying warm

Lol Ant Man is a magnet That HBP looked more worth challenging

Always good to get to the pen early in an opener

Aww, ST friend Ryan Borucki

Tough choice to go home there

Atta boy Benny

I don't understand that challenge, but alright.

.800, .690, .680 xBAs... all outs

Hope this good contact finds grass second time through

Fun fact: The most recent Sox HR at Oracle was hit by Adam Dunn...In 2014. He went back to back days on August 12/13 that year and no Sox has homered there since (small sample size, of course). So Mune (or anyone) hitting one would be an interesting "first Sox since..."

He just got scratched. Hill in RF now, batting 9th.