Gahhhhh. This is an awful thing that should never happen—with any living creature, not just a dusty flying bug—but Yankees-White Sox umpire Bruce Dreckman was remarkably calm when a small, moth-like animal (most likely a moth) flew into his ear between innings.
Andrelton Simmons, the best defensive shortstop in the Majors since he made his debut in 2012, has had a career year at the plate this season, with a slashline of .305/.362/.427 that is on pace to shatter his previous career-highs. On Thursday against the White Sox, he bumped up his slugging percentage a few more…
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The Gizmodo Media Special Projects Desk will be relying on new editor Tim Marchman to develop their promising young writers this year. Whether he can do anything like he did during his 2015-2018 stint as editor-in-chief of Deadspin, when he helped turn bloggers Kyle “Bad Wags” Wagner and Kevin “Piece Of Shit Warriors…
The hot stove is burning to the touch, and the Chicago White Sox are, as usual, stoking the flames. In today’s Rule 5 draft, they used the fourth overall pick on Carlos Tocci, a frail-looking outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies’ system who’s hit .266/.317/.377 in his minor-league career. Somewhat surprisingly,…
With the 2017 season over at long last, baseball enthusiasts are turning to their second-favorite pastime: looking back to predictions made by baseball writers to see who gets to gloat and who needs to eat crow. And their attention is rightly focused most of all on a remarkable call made earlier this year by Sports…
Matthew Boyd took a no-hitter into the top of the ninth today against the Chicago White Sox, with the Tigers winning 12-0. Boyd had allowed one base-runner all day, on a third inning walk. Adam Engel led off the bottom of the ninth with a pop out to third; Kevan Smith, hitting for Rob Brantly, grounded out to short.…
Along with the rest of Major League Baseball, the A’s announced their tentative 2018 schedule today. That includes a partial list of promotions—many of them geared towards celebrating the team’s 50th anniversary in Oakland—and a very special one on April 17 means that fans will be able to see that day’s game for free.…
The Chicago White Sox are the worst team in the American League, and so the best part of September is going to be Dog Day. At the GarField tonight, fans got to see a bunch of good boys who unfortunately support a very bad team.
The White Sox lost in Minnesota today when pitcher Juan Minaya hit Twins outfielder Max Kepler with the bases loaded in the ninth. There were two outs in the half inning, and the teams were tied at four runs apiece before Kepler’s HBP brought in Brian Dozier to score.
Here are two things of note from Tyler Clippard’s Sunday: He was traded to the Astros for either cash considerations or a player to be named later, and he was watching Game of Thrones when he got the call from White Sox GM Rick Hahn telling him as much. Clippard was 35 minutes into the episode, probably wondering why…
White Sox centerfielder Adam Engel received a gift with his pop-up in the third inning tonight—three Astros infielders who danced around the ball and simply let it drop. By the time that third baseman Alex Bregman was able to get his hands on it, Engel had already rounded second base. And then, more than halfway to…
In his sixth year as a pro ballplayer, Nicky Delmonico made his major-league debut with the Chicago White Sox tonight, striking out before a sparse crowd.
Less than two weeks after he was called up to the major leagues, White Sox top prospect Yoán Moncada was carted off the field after colliding with teammate Willy GarcĂa in the outfield during the sixth inning of tonight’s game against the Blue Jays. GarcĂa was able to walk off under his own power, but he left the game…
Having only won a single game in their last 13, culminating in three straight losses to the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox are struggling to attract fans to the ballpark. Perhaps having intuited that a .111-hitting Yoan Moncada, Alen Hanson, David Holmberg, and Whothefuckis Thatguy aren’t going to draw in even…
The White Sox have sent reliever Anthony Swarzak to the Brewers in exchange for outfield prospect Ryan Cordell.
White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon, making just his fifth start of the season after a lengthy DL stint, took on his team’s cross-town rivals at Wrigley today. Sox fans, I have good news and bad news.
It’s late July and the White Sox are dutifully maintaining their position at the bottom of the American League. In other bottom-related news, here’s your White Sox announcing crew discussing hemorrhoids during the sixth inning of today’s matchup in Kansas City—one the team lost on a walk-off double to Brandon Moss.
The Chicago White Sox are playing the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are pitching Clayton Kershaw, tonight. Let’s talk about what happened Friday night, when Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti presented color man Steve Stone, who previously rejected a fried pickle, with a frozen turkey on his 70th birthday:
While discussing how he bribed people to say nice things to color man Steve Stone on his birthday during the top of the first inning of tonight’s tilt against the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti admitted that the team had run out of money for the announcing team to spend during the…
