ALDS - White Sox at Guardians

[Frayed Knot]

Saturday 10/3 [1 PM EDT on TBS] in a best-of-five to determine the best of the weak half of the AL bracket.

For the White Sox, Hagen Smith -- a 22 y/o (LH) rookie with 18 G / 1 start under his belt -- gets the game one start. Somebody to follow quickly afterward most likely.

vs Parker Messick, also a lefty, for the Guardians -- a 25 y/o statistical rookie (7 games in '25) and serious RoY candidate [32 GS, 186 IP, 2.56 ERA, 1.06 WHIP]

Cleveland spends 162 games proving that they were (one game) better than the White Sox ... and now they get to do it all over again in a three-of-five matchup.

[MFS62]

My White Sox fan friend who calls himself Shoeless Don Is rooting hard for Chicage.

As he puts it, "After all, who can root for anything from Cleveland?"

Later

[whippoorwill]

Go Cleveland