The White Sox had been throughout the nationwide spotlight after a chronic brawl Saturday with the Cleveland Guardians that features Tim Anderson and José Ramírez. There was no announcement from Main League Baseball about self-discipline as of Sunday.
The Cubs’ momentum continued over the weekend as they obtained their assortment in the direction of the Atlanta Braves — who’re tied with the Baltimore Orioles for primarily essentially the most wins throughout the majors — to finish a 5-2 homestand sooner than heading on a six-game journey.
Each Monday all by way of the season, Tribune baseball writers will current an exchange on what occurred — and what’s ahead — for the Cubs and Sox.
Dansby Swanson faces his outdated workforce for 1st time
Maybe the experience will actually really feel additional surreal when the Cubs head to Atlanta throughout the final week of the season.
Earlier than his new workforce took two of three video video games from his former workforce over the weekend, Dansby Swanson talked about he cracked up when he seen the Cubs-Braves matchups this season, most notably a three-game set Sept. 26-28 at Truist Park when the postseason might probably be on the street.
“I don’t know what shall be tougher,” Swanson talked about of going by way of the Braves for the first time at Wrigley Area instead of in his return to Atlanta. “Nevertheless it’s good taking part in right here this time of yr due to the climate. It’s most likely 95 or 100 (levels) again dwelling with lots of humidity, which typically I do miss.”
After going hitless Friday, Swanson homered, doubled and drove in 4 runs throughout the Cubs’ two wins Saturday and Sunday.
“There’s been so many alternatives to develop as a human and all people right here with the Cubs has been so accepting of me,” Swanson talked about. “They’ve made it actually, very easy. Individuals are actually respectful and know the right way to push me to get essentially the most out of me.”
Swanson sometimes retains monitor of the Braves by the use of area scores, checking in to see how his associates are doing. Going into the gathering versus the Braves, he thought the video video games would showcase who the Cubs think about they’re as they’ve fought their method into the playoff hunt.
“It’s type of just like the trajectory of our yr, beginning out somewhat bit sluggish and actually beginning to ramp up and construct on some issues over the past month or two,” Swanson talked about. “It’s a extremely nice alternative to go on the market and present what we’re product of.”
Korey Lee excited for model new various with Sox
Catcher Korey Lee had a reasonably good provide for particulars on the White Sox group in first baseman Andrew Vaughn.
The 2 had been faculty roommates at California.
Assembly with reporters all through a video conference Wednesday, Lee talked about Vaughn instructed him “simply to be able to play (and) give it your all each single day.”
“That’s what I delight myself on,” Lee talked about. “I do know that’s what he does actually, rather well. I’m comfortable to be a part of the (group) and able to get began.”
The Sox acquired Lee in a commerce from the Houston Astros for reliever Kendall Graveman on July 28. He was the No. 5 prospect throughout the Astros group consistent with MLB.com, which ranks him the No. 14 prospect throughout the Sox group.
He slashed .283/.328/.406 with 18 doubles, 5 dwelling runs and 32 RBIs in 68 video video games this season for Triple-A Sugar Land throughout the Pacific Coast League.
“Houston gave me an excellent alternative to discover ways to be a professional,” Lee talked about. “Coming in at 20, you don’t actually know what to anticipate. Now coming into the White Sox group at 25, it feels somewhat bit higher and the chance is nice.”
After spending time on the injured itemizing with a strained correct oblique, Lee is at Triple-A Charlotte. He has some major-league experience, going 4-for-25 (.160) with 4 RBIs in 12 video video games with the Astros in 2022.
“I bought to be round Martín Maldonado, I bought to be taught from him, I bought to see how he managed a pitching workers at that finish,” Lee talked about. “Discovered how he communicated with pitchers and it taught me a lot.
“I’m going to hold that additional into my profession and make it my means, however he taught me the right way to be knowledgeable catcher. And over there in Houston they knew the right way to win, and I need to carry that over to the White Sox.”
What we’re learning this morning
Week ahead: Cubs
The offense has been carrying the Cubs given that All-Star break, a helpful burden it has taken on whereas the pitching staff is with out right-hander Marcus Stroman, who will keep on the injured itemizing by the use of the road journey.
In 23 video video games given that All-Star break, the Cubs have scored 164 runs, primarily essentially the most in Main League Baseball and 34 better than the second-place Dodgers. The Cubs’ .298 post-break workforce frequent coming into Sunday was the easiest throughout the large leagues by 24 elements over the the Cardinals, whereas their .891 OPS moreover led the majors.
The Cubs’ 150 runs of their first 20 video video games after the break is tied for second given that All-Star break was utilized in 1933. Their manufacturing in that span trailed solely the California Angels’ 161 runs in 1995, consistent with Stats Carry out.
The wins have adopted the offensive outburst. The Cubs’ 16-7 report (.696 profitable proportion) throughout the second half is tied with the Orioles for the easiest in baseball.
- Monday: at Mets, 6:10 p.m., Marquee
- Tuesday: at Mets, 6:10 p.m., Marquee
- Wednesday: at Mets, 6:10 p.m., Marquee
- Thursday: off
- Friday: at Blue Jays, 6:07 p.m., Apple TV+
- Saturday: at Blue Jays, 2:07 p.m., Marquee
- Sunday: at Blue Jays, 12:37 p.m., Marquee
Week ahead: White Sox
The Sox awaited phrase Sunday on attainable self-discipline from Main League Baseball after Saturday’s brawl with the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Area.
Sox shortstop Tim Anderson and Guardians third baseman José Ramírez and nearer Emmanuel Clase had been ejected after the sixth-inning skirmish, as had been every managers and Guardians third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh.
It took 14 minutes sooner than order was restored and the game continued.
“It’s not the primary time I’ve been a part of that,” Sox infielder Elvis Andrus talked about Saturday. “Boys are going to be boys and we go to battle each night time to the acute, 100%. Typically issues like this occur and there’s nothing you are able to do. It’s up to now and you progress on and prepare for the sport tomorrow.”
Anderson was not throughout the starting lineup — supervisor Pedro Grifol talked about it was a scheduled time off — whereas Ramírez was the designated hitter in Sunday’s assortment finale, the teams’ last meeting this season. Andrus carried out shortstop Sunday and had the go-ahead two-run single throughout the ninth inning of a 5-3 Sox victory.
Grifol talked about if suspensions come from MLB, “we’ve got to regulate and will probably be enterprise as standard once more.”
- Monday: vs. Yankees, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Tuesday: vs. Yankees, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Wednesday: vs. Yankees, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Thursday: off
- Friday: vs. Brewers, 7:10 p.m., NBCSCH
- Saturday: vs. Brewers, 6:15 p.m., Fox-32
- Sunday: vs. Brewers, 1:10 p.m., NBCSCH
This week in Chicago baseball
Aug. 7, 2004: Cubs’ Greg Maddux wins his three hundredth recreation
After it was over and Greg Maddux had earned his three hundredth major-league victory, he mirrored on a occupation that no person may need envisioned when he threw his first expert pitch at Class A Pikesville in 1984.
An 8-4 victory over the Giants put Maddux on a plateau that solely 21 others had reached since Jim Galvin turned the first in 1889. However Maddux appeared additional comfortable alongside together with his longevity than his milestone.
“It feels good simply to have the ability to play this sport so long as I’ve,” he talked about. “It’s a superb gig when you may pitch each fifth sport and have 4 days off in between. Belief me — it’s good. Simply to be within the sport so long as I’ve is fairly particular. That’s what it’s all about.”
He pitched five-plus innings, yielding 4 runs on seven hits to boost to 11-7. The undeniable fact that it was over and carried out with was a assist to the 38-year-old veteran, who wished no part of the hype.
It took two makes an try and a comeback from a three-run deficit for Maddux to attain No. 300, making it troublesome for his family to stay calm.
“I used to be so nervous and so excited,” Dave Maddux, Greg’s father, instructed the Tribune. “I seen him after the game and requested him if he was nervous. He talked about, ‘No, probably not.’ Certainly one of us wanted to be nervous. It’s probably biggest that it was me.
“It was an excellent win and an excellent crew effort as a result of he didn’t pitch actual effectively. However the bullpen got here in and, boy, I bought so nervous then. Each time they’d get runners on base, I’d say, ‘Oh, that’s the tying run. In the event that they tie it up, we’ve bought to go elsewhere to get the “W.” ‘ ”
Aug. 8, 1976: White Sox placed on shorts in a recreation for the first time
As any respectable major-league workforce might do, White Sox players positioned on their shorts one leg at a time.
Positive, there have been some snickers, grumbles and complaints throughout the clubhouse. However they’d been comfortable and former Sox proprietor Invoice Veeck needed one different gimmick to draw followers to Comiskey Park.
Throughout an introductory data conference in 1976, Veeck quipped, “You can be awed. … Comiskey Park will exchange Paris and New York as the style middle of the world.”
Holding courtroom at Miller’s Pub, Veeck went on to say: “We’re including magnificence to baseball types. We might not be the best crew in baseball, a minimum of not for a number of years, however we’ll instantly be essentially the most fashionable crew within the sport.”
The shorts, nonetheless, had been short-lived. The players wore them in merely three video video games in 1976, along with the first recreation of a doubleheader on Aug. 8 in the direction of the Royals. The players refused to placed on them for the nightcap.
On July 4, 1976, former Tribune sportswriter Bob Verdi elicited reactions regarding the prospect of sporting shorts.
“They don’t must get a pair for me. I’ll simply use (teammate) Jack Brohamer’s common pants and so they’ll appear to be shorts,” Sox pitcher Bart Johnson talked about.
Lamar Johnson talked about: “I bought the nicest thighs you ever noticed. I can’t wait.”
Catcher Jim Essian quipped: “I’ll simply shave my legs. After we slide in these issues and get all lower up, we’ll must shave earlier than we put the bandages on anyway, proper?”
Aug. 8, 1988: First scheduled night time time recreation throughout the 74-year historic previous of Wrigley Area
Nicely, almost — it wasn’t official after a downpour postponed the game with the Cubs foremost the Phillies 3-1 throughout the bottom of the fourth inning.
The primary phrase on the historic “Let there be lights” recreation at Wrigley Area goes to Invoice Murray, who threw on some shades and caught out his tongue moments sooner than he joined Harry Caray for a pregame spot on WGN-9.
The primary recreation with lights drew far more consideration than normally accorded a Monday matchup between fourth- and fifth-place teams. Dignitaries throughout the sellout crowd included Mayor Eugene Sawyer, Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, MLB Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and Nationwide League President A. Bartlett Giamatti. A resident-only parking ordinance moreover took influence throughout the ballpark.
Beginning pitcher Rick Sutcliffe was virtually blinded by the lots of of flashbulbs that went off as he delivered the first pitch. Maybe that was why Phillies outfielder Phil Bradley deposited Sutcliffe’s fourth pitch into the bleachers.
After a two-hour rain delay, the game was known as, obliterating it from the report books.
“This proves that the Cubs are cursed,” one fan talked about as she ran from the ballpark. The Tribune editorialized, “Somebody up there appears to take day baseball critically.”
Aug. 9, 1988: Cubs win first night time time recreation at Wrigley Area
After a rainout the sooner night time time, Mike Bielecki fired a known as strike to Lenny Dykstra to start the game, and the Cubs went on to beat the Mets as night time time baseball, in the long run, had reached Clark and Addison.
Within the main night time time recreation in Wrigley Area historic previous that actually counted, the Cubs hit the Mets with 4 runs throughout the seventh inning, then held on for a 6-4 victory sooner than 36,399 very noisy people.
“It may need been louder final night time,” talked about Mark Grace, who drove in one in every of many runs throughout the decisive seventh. “However that’s the loudest for an entire sport that I’ve ever been related to.”
Aug. 12, 2021: White Sox win the first Area of Desires recreation
The diamond the place the movie “Area of Desires” was filmed was an prolonged relay throw away from the non everlasting 8,000-seat ballpark on the Dyersville, Iowa, farm. So after all of the inaugural Area of Desires recreation that features the White Sox and Yankees resulted in dramatic development.
Tim Anderson provided the heroics, hitting a walk-off, two-run dwelling run into the cornfield previous the right-field wall with one out throughout the bottom of the ninth to supply the Sox a 9-8 victory — an thrilling recreation that can have amazed Ray Kinsella.
“It was our first time right here within the Area of Desires and to have the ability to make a reminiscence like that is positively leaving a mark,” Anderson talked about. “The followers got here to see a present and we gave them a present.”
The night time time started with players from every teams following actor Kevin Costner onto the diamond after strolling by the use of a cornfield in correct. The night time time ended with a ball landing close to that house.
Earlier than the game, players gathered throughout the outfield for workforce pictures. They walked on a path by the use of a cornfield from the park to the movie set.
“My digicam reel is just about full proper now,” Sox nearer Liam Hendriks talked about. “I walked by the use of the bullpen. There’s no fence correct behind the bullpen, so I ran by the use of the cornfields there.
Costner walked by the use of the cornfield to the park, adopted by Sox and Yankees players as a result of the “Area of Desires” score carried out minutes sooner than the first pitch.
“It blew me away,” pitcher Lucas Giolito talked about of his first response to the sphere. “I was anticipating to see loads of corn throughout the outfield, nonetheless I wasn’t anticipating these kinds of consideration to ingredient throughout the dugout.
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