IGT 08/21 - NYMets at CHISox - South Side Sluggin'

[kcmets]

Sean Manaea (LHP) 4-5, 4.22 ERA, 113 SO

TBD

[whippoorwill]

What time KC?

[kcmets]

Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care...

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's an appropriate response for a series being played in Chicago.

[Edgy MD]

41 minutes ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

That's an appropriate response for a series being played in Chicago.

This post made me smile.

 

[Centerfield]

I knew the White Sox were doing better this year, but I was surprised to see they are in first place in the AL Central.   66-60.  

[seawolf17]

Saw a story recently that they're on pace to be the first team since eighteen dickety nine or whatever to lose 100 games and win the division the following year.

[Centerfield]

It helps that they unloaded their underperforming CF on us and signed a giant Japanese whose HRs make MLB stadiums look like Little League fields. 

[Frayed Knot]

ChiSox are 7th in MLB in scoring (RS/G) though tops in the AL (trailing WAS, CHC, PIT, LAD, MIL, and COL) and 3rd overall in HRs. Are right in the middle of the pack in giving up runs (just behind the Mets)..

They're coming off losing two of three to the Cubs (both losses by walk-off) before getting shutout today (and no-hit thru six) in an afternoon makeup game vs the Braves.

Looks like we'll see Sean Burke [RH; 3.15 ERA; 1.11 WHIP] on Friday night (7:40 EDT for whoever asked earlier), ex-Mariner Luis Castillo [RH; 4.99; 1.37 combined SEA/CHW] on Saturday (7:10), and ... somebody on Sunday (2:10). Bryan Hudson (opener) then Erick Fedde followed Castillo in the rotation last time but they don't seem like a strict rotation kind of club.

A couple of familiar names out of the pen: Sean Newcomb (a one-time starter for the Braves), hard-throwing Jordan Hicks (a brief sensation for StL) and his walktastic ways (4.9 BB/9 career, 5.9 this season), and Erick Fedde who came up w/the Nats and pitched there 2017 - 2022 before tours of Korea, CHW, StL ATL, MIL, and now back to the Sox.

ex-NYM factor: Luisangel Acuna [.237/.269/.269 in 199 PA] and one-time 1st round draft pick and (via War Melville HS and U of Conn) Anthony Kay. Now 31 y/o, he sports a [4.01 ERA / 1.34 WHIP in his first year in the States following two seasons in Japan.

And their entire offensive lineup, with the exception of their DH pair [Andrew Benintendi (L) and Randal Grichuk (R)] are under 30.