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Given how his season went in Seattle you'd think they would have known something was badly wrong. Getz was around for James Shields, you'd think he'd remember how that went based on what Shields was doing that year for San Diego.

It would help if they could actually keep these pitchers healthy and if not, at least get their rehab right so they don't suffer as many "setbacks"...

Players have some blame but not a lot in my opinion. It's been a long season, they are gassed, played over their heads for months. When Getz f#$%^& up the trade deadline that was the start of the breaking point.

Game time has been moved to 1:10 Chicago time trying to beat the rain.

He should be, he works for Detroit now. Perfectly understandable.

*Newcomb's line in September: 8 IP, 15 H, 12 R, 11 ER, 2 HR, 2 HBP, 6 BB, 7 K. Tigers 11, White Sox 8: Bullpen reaches breaking point -...From here on out, Will Venable’s only pathway to victory might require a starting pitcher to go six innings. The White Sox were able to nurse a two-run lead across the final 4 ⅓ innings of Thursday ni

Three factoids today: September 19, 1925 - The White Sox set the franchise record (since tied) for the largest shutout margin in team history when they blanked the Senators 17-0 at Washington. The game was the back half of a twin bill. Ted Lyons would throw a one-hitter, losing his no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning on a bloop single to right by Bobby Veach over the head of first baseman Earl Sheely. Sheely had the big offensive game for the Sox going 4 for 6 with four RBI’s and two runs scored. The Sox had a seven run, second inning and an eight run, fifth inning. September 19, 1972 – It was one of the wildest games the White Sox ever played. Facing the A’s in Oakland and fighting to stay alive in the pennant race, the Sox beat Oakland 8-7 in 15 innings in a game that took almost five hours to play. The Sox couldn’t hold leads of 5-3 in the ninth inning or 7-5 in the 13th but wound up winning on a George Orta home run. Rich “Goose” Gossage, the last of seven pitcher’s manager Chuck Tanner used on the night, got the win. A Major League record (for the time) 51 players were used in the game, 21 by the White Sox and 30 by the A’s. That record has since been broken. September 19, 1986 - Sox pitcher Joe Cowley made the record books by no-hitting the Angels in Anaheim 7-1. It was an unusual no-hitter. Cowley walked seven, including three straight in the sixth inning, when California got their run. He also struck out eight and threw a total of 138 pitches. It was only the 12th time in big league history a club got no-hit…but scored a run! Ironically it would be Cowley’s last win in the big leagues as he lost his final two starts that year, was traded to the Phillies where he went 0-4, was demoted to Triple-A Maine and retired.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/18/chicago-white-sox-will-venable-bullpen/

It will be 1967, 2003 and 2012 all over again. 13 losses in the last 19 games. It always comes down to pitching.

Second shocking loss in a week. 13th time this year the Sox had a lead in the 7th inning or later and lost the game. Just hard to see how they recover from this one. Pitching is completely spent. Somehow win four more games, lock in a winning season, thanks for the memories and make your golf reservations. We'll see if there is a next season.

During the three rebuild years before 2020 the Sox as I recall had either the very lowest payroll (one season) and two of the lowest in MLB.

The original poster said heavy rain is expected through Sunday afternoon. If that's true you aren't playing a DH on that day, you'll be lucky to get a single game in. The LAST thing I want is for the Sox to have to play a DH not with their pitching staff but as Kenny once intoned: "It is what it is..."

Tanaka. He's the pitcher that David Kaplan proclaimed very loudly that "The Cubs would not be outbid for him..." 😉

Unless it rains again.

Did they when Mike Illitch owned Detroit? Given the Sox have had the same owner since 1981 and that his approach and principals haven't changed looking at Sox history in trying to get a sense of what will happen in the future is not "always wrong..."

He certainly deserves that. But he also deserves questioning his lineup construction, his stubbornness when it comes to lefty/righty, his bullpen usage and of course the Schultz debacle.

Sun-Times said he's probably not playing Friday. Wrist is still to sore.

Exactly, if you have to play on the road at least they have won games in Cleveland definitely do not want to have to play at Houston with them having home field. They have owned the Sox for years.

The James Shields situation v 2.0

Author sheds MLB for claiming no salary cap is why they have blackouts: "What does this have to do with TV blackouts? As part of the league’s public relations campaign to gin up support for the cap/floor system, MLB has tied implementing a salary cap to eliminating TV blackouts. The suggestion is that the only way MLB could eliminate blackouts is by implementing a salary cap. This, however, is a complete farce. Blackouts directly reflect the media deals the league and its teams have struck with their broadcast partners. Regional sports networks (and now streamers) will pay a premium for exclusivity, which is only possible with blackouts. Similarly, national networks will pay a premium to ensure the games they air aren’t also available on regional sports networks, which would cannibalize their audience. In other words, blackouts exist only because the league and its teams want to make more money. It has nothing to do with the players objecting to a salary cap." Awful AnnouncingMLBPA director Bruce Meyer refutes MLB suggestion that TV...MLBPA executive director Bruce Meyer says the league could end blackouts whenever they want instead of blaming players.

In the Sun-Times today he acknowledged that his swing had become to "upper cut."

It was written about at the time that JR wanted all income opportunities inside the park so the franchise would get all of the fans money.

Like last night, hope they have good luck again this evening.

Four factoids today: September 18, 1910 – The White Sox shut out Boston 6-0 in a game that took only 97 minutes but what was significant was, in it, the Sox recorded the first ever triple play at Comiskey Park. A line drive was hit with runners in motion to second baseman Freddy Parent, who tossed to shortstop Rollie Zeider to catch a runner off of second, Zeider then threw to Arnold “Chick” Gandil to nab the runner off of first. Ninety-six years to the day, in 2006, the White Sox also recorded a triple play! September 18, 1940 - A game originally played on June 20 with the Sox beating New York 1-0 in 11 innings, was ordered replayed by the commissioner’s office after the Yankees protested an out call on a fly ball in the second inning. A Sox win was literally taken away. In the original game, umpire John Quinn ruled that Sox left fielder Julius “Moose” Solters hung on to a foul ball off the bat of Bill Dickey long enough for it to be considered an out. New York’s protest was upheld by A.L. president Will Harridge on July 2 and declared the contest a no decision. The Sox found themselves in the middle of a pennant race and losing 9-8 in the eighth inning of the replayed game, which was the second game of a double header, when umpire Harry Geisel ordered the game ended, claiming it was too dark to finish. The decision meant a split for the two teams on the day after the Sox took the first game 6-3. September 18, 1971 – Sox outfielder Carlos May pulled off one of the rarest baseball feats of all when he got an inside-the-park grand-slam against the Angels Tom Murphy. May, a left-handed hitter, sliced a drive down the left field line at Comiskey Park in the first inning. California’s Ken Berry, the former Sox outfielder, slammed his head diving for the ball which rolled into the corner. By the time center fielder Mickey Rivers came over and threw it back home, Pat Kelly, Jay Johnstone and Bill Melton had crossed the plate ahead of May. The Sox behind pitcher Tom Bradley won the game 5-1. Inside-the-park grand-slams are even rarer than no-hitters. There have been 225 inside-the-park grand-slam home runs dating back to 1881 in Major League Baseball. For comparison, there have been 327 no-hitters pitched in MLB games since 1876. September 18, 2020 – Undoubtedly as a consequence of the pandemic-postponed season for the minor leagues and compressed nature of the MLB campaign, Garrett Crochet became the first player since Mike Leake in 2010 to make his professional debut in the big leagues. His only seasoning came in alternate-site (Schaumburg) appearances. He also was only the 22nd player to go directly to the Major Leagues since the start of the common draft in 1965. The top White Sox pick in the 2020 draft struck out two of the three Cincinnati Reds he faced in his debut, hitting 100+ on the radar gun multiple times. Despite pitching just one week of the regular season, Crochet ended up registering more 100+ MPH pitches than anyone in the majors in 2020.

That's the breaks of the schedule. Sometimes it isn't who you play but when you play them and how they are doing at the time.