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This is The Socks Machine Podcast with 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.960 your hosts Jim Margolis and Josh Nelson. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.320 Hello, folks, welcome to a new episode of The Sox 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.639 Machine podcast, part of the File Territory Network. I'm your 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.720 host Josh Nelson, and we're recording this episode on Sunday night, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:09.360 August twenty third. And what a dramatic weekend was for 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.560 the Chicago White Sox as they win the series against 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.800 the New York Mets thanks to the lawn ball so 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.479 Ball Go Far, Team Go Far. The White Sox win 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.080 both games thanks to the walk off home run from 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.600 Jake Rogers and Tristan Peters. Of course, the most likely 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.440 of home run hitters for the Chicago White Sox, but 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.800 in this episode we'll also talk about the struggles for 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.520 Luis Castillo and review this week's series. As the Texas 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.600 Rangers are making a comeback in the American League picture 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.040 postseason picture. Not only are they try and chase down 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.880 the Cleveland Guardians for the wildcard spot, but they have 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.200 tied with the Houston Astros and Americ League West, so 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.920 this is a big series for the Texas Rangers this 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.040 week in Chicago. Let's take a quick look at the 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.559 American League Central standings and again the White Sox winning 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.520 two out of three against the Mets, they still have 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.960 the lead. They are sixty eight and sixty two. The 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.320 Cleveland Guardians swept the Colorado Rockies, so they're back at 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.840 sixty five and sixty six to They're back at just 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.959 one game below five hundred and also back into the 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.280 postseason picture. They currently host the or hold i should say, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.079 the final wildcard spot. The Minnesota Twins were swept by 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.520 the San Diego Padres, so they're five and a half 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.120 games back with the White Sox. The Kidsas City Royals 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:32.360 swept the Detroit Tigers. That is a big surprise. So 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.880 now the Tigers are closer to the Royals than they 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.560 are to the White Sox. The Tigers are seven games 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.760 back with the White Sox and just four games ahead 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.440 of the Kansas City Royals. Would you take a look 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.880 at the latest projections from fangrafts dot com. Fangrafts is 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.320 now projecting that the White Sox have a seventy three 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.480 point eight percent chance of reaching the postseason and their 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.560 odds of winning the American League Central have increased to 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:03.280 sixty one point three percent after this weekend. So let's 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.200 continue talking about what happened this weekend and joining me 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.680 is Sox Machines Baging Editor. It's Jim Margolus, and hello Jim, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.520 what a dramatic weekend for the Chicago White Sox. They 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:19.120 now have eleven walk off wins this season. As you 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.280 were writing up the first ten walkoff wins. Makes it 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.920 so easy to do a top ten the best of 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.320 the walkoff wins, but now you have another to consider, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.840 and I really think that this weekend the highlight is 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.200 the lawn ball gym. The home runs were crucial in 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.760 the White Sox winning this series. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:46.040 They were especially Game one, the finale one homer solo 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.400 shot just happened to be all time. But until Grant 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.920 Taylor had his worst ending in quite a long time, 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.360 it was Andrew Benintendi doubling off the base of the wall, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.040 Miguel Vargus scoring from first, you know, the classic baseball action, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.960 scoring a run without the benefit of a homer, and 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.960 that kind of worked for them. But yeah, it was 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.960 the back to back to back homers before Rogers went 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.560 deep in the ninth that defined it. And you know 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.920 they kind of have to do that, and not in 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.520 a bad way, but it just like the way teams 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.919 are constructed, how important the home run is in every postseason, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.360 it's always a plot line is you need to figure 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.400 out different ways to score runs in October. Invariably it's 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.880 the team that hit the most homers that succeed in October. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.240 So as much as you'd like to have that kind 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.640 of well rounded offense and have the really good sound 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.400 performance with runners in scoring position, it's just the state 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.159 of pitching in twenty twenty six, the state of hitting 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.320 in twenty twenty six to combat that pitching is such 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.960 that it's really hard to string together three good played 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.640 appearances in a row. And every team, or at least 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.599 most teams struggle with runners in scoring position. This conversation 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.599 we have about runners in scoring position with the White 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:03.000 Sox happens basically across the league. So yeah, it is 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.279 a you know, a I shouldn't say problem, but like 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.080 a core identity of the White Sox. They have to 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.560 hit the home run. And it's it's rather than I 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.640 guess you moaning or saying like, well, they gotta figure 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.760 out other ways to score. Probably the simpler way to say, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.160 keep hitting homers, keep having balls hit over the top 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.839 of the fence and over hit, over gloves and over 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.479 whatever it takes to get the ball over the fence. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.039 It's a lot simpler that way. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.320 Yeah, And there was this tweet that I saw from 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.920 ESPN Insights that Tristan Peters walk off home run on 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.280 Sunday was the White Sox fit walk off home run 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.600 this season. That's the most major League Baseball in twenty 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.400 twenty six. Tristan Peters is the fifth different White Sox 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.200 hitter to have a walk off home run. So the 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:54.720 list is Bradon Montgomery, Edgar Carrow, Jake Rodgers, Miguel Vargus, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:00.640 and now Tristan Peters, and for this White Sox team, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.680 again thanks to this weekend, they continue to climb up 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.679 as far as the leader board for most home runs 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.800 hit by any team in Major League Baseball. The Washington 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.240 Nationals still lead the league with one hundred and eighty 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.599 three home runs. The Yankees are second, which is impressive 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.920 because they really haven't had Aaron Judge for most of 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.120 the season. They have one hundred and seventy nine home runs. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.960 The Cubs hit a lot of home runs this weekend 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.719 against the Seattle Mariner, so the White Sox and Cubs 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.760 fittingly are both tied with one hundred and seventy four. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.360 The Astros are one home run behind. They have one 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.680 hundred and seventy three. The Reds have one hundred and 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.000 sixty nine, the Braves have one hundred and sixty seven, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:39.960 and so do the Dodgers. So a lot of the 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.680 teams that are in the postseason race are closer to 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.560 the top of the home run leader board when it 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.040 comes to Major League Baseball. But then again, for the 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.719 purest and for the old school, they will point at 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.680 the Milwaukee Brewers towards the bottom and say the Brewers 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.560 are the best record of Ajor League Baseball and they 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.599 don't hit a lot of home runs, So that is 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.200 a fair counterpoint. But there's more wedding teams towards the 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.080 top when it comes to the home runs. But Jim, 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.320 the White Sox are on pace to hit two hundred 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.040 and seventeen home runs. To me, that is eye opening. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.119 If you told me before the season that the White 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.000 Sox have a great chance of hitting two hundred home runs, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.320 I'd be wondering, from who is Austin Hayes hitting twenty 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.760 five home runs this season? But here we are, and 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.160 I definitely think they're going to hit two hundred. But 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.600 I guess the question is, do you see this White 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.320 Sox team reaching this projection of hitting close to two 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.160 hundred and seventeen home runs this season? 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.080 Some context for two seventeen, just because I wanted to 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.120 see exactly where this fits in terms of what other 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.320 teams have done. That would tie for fifth among all 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.960 White Sox teams, all of them in the aughts. So 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.280 two thousand and four they hit two forty two, two 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.880 thousand and six, two thirty six, two thousand and eight, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.480 two thirty five, twenty three to twenty two thousand and 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.680 two two seventeen, so they would tie that team and 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.520 then you have actually, yeah, the first one, two three, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.920 seven years or all in the oughts, because then you 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.520 have two thousand and two followed by two thousand and 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.240 two thousand and one. Uh So, if it feels like 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.480 it's that great of offense, it doesn't feel like that. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.920 You know, you don't have the yeah kind of a 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.000 big three. You don't have Frank Thomas, you know in 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.480 his you know, last Hurrah. I guess like in terms 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.960 of his original prime you don't have that kind of 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.160 big masher there. Uh to where you think, like, oh, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.320 this is two hundred homer is easy. So I'm inclined 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.040 to say no. But then if you think about and 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.600 you say, you're like, well, you know, they're it feels 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.800 like they've eased up their pace, but not really, especially 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.199 in August to where like they're still on that kind 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:53.520 of two hundred and twenty home run pace and you're seeing, yeah, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.760 guys in the downswing a little bit like Cools Montgomery 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.080 has slowed up, and like, but who's compensating for him? Well, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.959 you're going to talk about a communist six weeks and 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.480 you know, so he can make up the pace that 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.320 he lost in the first half. And you see like 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:12.680 the Andrew Benintendi, Randall Gritchik, the R Andrew DH doing fine. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.079 You have like Brad Montgomery who's kind of underachieving from 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:20.040 a power perspective. Tristan Peters seems like he's been he 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.600 had been underachieving from a power perspective. It seems like 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.520 after that lull that he went into after the All 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.440 Star break, it seems like he's getting back into bringing 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:33.640 pictures into his happy zones a little bit more. And 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.520 then you know, maybe Kyle Teal comes back and provides 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.520 a little bit of something that the Catchers haven't really had. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.640 So there's probably a way to compensate for guys who 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.640 might have to ease up or might Yeah, like Colson 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.679 Montgomery if he just has kind of formed the rest 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.920 of the season, somebody will need to step up to 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.800 brought by what we did in the first half, and 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.040 maybe there's enough depth there to make it happen. So 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.319 normally I kind of always bet the under on this 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.000 or say like, yeah, they're not going to quite get there, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.000 but let's say they hit it, Like yeah, I don't 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.760 know if they get to two twenty but I feel 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.400 like they could as a team get up to the 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:10.400 two seventeen level. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.920 It's just fascinating that we are talking about one of 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.560 the best home run hitting teams in White Sox franchise history. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:23.160 Twenty twenty six, Like again, a season of surprises. This 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.800 has been leading the charge. I think Jim for this surprise, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.160 I think it catches a lot of people off card. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.520 You hear it in national broadcast when they talk about 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.520 the White Sox. Now it's yeah, the White Sox still 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.520 leading the Central Did you know the White Sox lead 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.880 the American League in runs scored? And I didn't know 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.120 that before this weekend. And that's a great fun little 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.679 trivia nugget for the Chicago White Sox. And it kind 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.920 of needs to right now, right because of how the 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.720 pitching situation is. But this is where as a White 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.839 Sox fan, Yes, Saturday did not go well, but it 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.160 didn't really feel like sitting in the stands gym, that 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.400 that game was really over until like the eighth inning, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.040 even when the White Sox were down seven to three 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.079 and they were threatening when they had the bases loaded, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.800 that there was this feeling in the ballpark that they're 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.319 going to figure it out, like they're gonna come back, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.360 just like the night before when the Mets had full 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.520 control of that game, gym up four to nothing and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.000 then in a blink of an eye, three straight home 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.640 runs and the game is tied. Like while the offense 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:37.200 could be frustrating and it's not fun watching Colson Montgomery, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.560 Munataka Americami gym strike out, especially with runners in scoring position, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.160 but this team is still leading the pace in the 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.080 American League and runs scored. And this is where I 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.440 think other teams getting closer to the postseason can't sleep 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.840 on the White Sox because if you do, they have 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.280 this amazing ability to have these big innings to the 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:00.800 home run. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.400 Yeah, I think that stat the White Sox leading the 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.480 American League at run scored says about as much about 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.360 them as it does the American League, because I looked 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.240 it up just to see where's it fit league wide 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.480 or like Major League Baseball wide, and it's a distant sixth. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.920 You have the Cubs leading the way, the Nationals basically 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.959 within two runs of each other at the top at 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.280 six eighty four and six eighty two, the Dodgers six 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.160 fifty three, Pirates tied at six fifty three, Pirates being 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.600 tied with the Dodgers, that's a surprise. Then the Brewers 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.400 at six fifty so then thirty two runs later, you 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.400 get to the White Sox at number six, and that's 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.480 good for the White Sox, Like that's where you want 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.199 the White Sox to be overall, like six and baseball, sure, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.520 you know that's that's great, but tops the American League. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.200 It's like, man, I guess with Aaron Judge being out, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.040 with the Blue Jays being a disappointment, I think you're 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.520 probably expecting those teams be one to two in run scored, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.320 and yeah, it's just it's not happening. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.160 Jim mentioned it earlier, but it is one of the 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.080 storylines of this series. The White Sox struggles with runners 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:16.440 in scoring position. They went two for nineteen this series 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.040 with runners in scoring position. So if you are looking 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.079 for ways to improve, this would be an area for 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.000 Andrew bettat Teddy Jim he had four plate appearances with 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.760 the bases loaded in this series and all he could 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.240 muster was a sackfly. He had three plate appearances with 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.719 the bases loaded on Saturday. It just couldn't come up 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.679 with that big hit. For the season, the White Sox 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.760 have a seven to twenty three OPS with runners in 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:47.520 scoring position that ranks twentieth in Major League Baseball. I wonder, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.240 I guess I should ask, is this going to be 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.679 the White Sox offensive achilles heel as far as trying 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.400 to hold everyone off in the American League Central or 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.400 even looking ahead to the postseason of if they don't 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.120 win as seasies, this might be a reason why. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.240 Yeah, I feel like that's a self fulfilling prophecy in 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:07.680 a way, because that's just another way to say that 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.160 you didn't score runs, okay, and you know that that's 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.120 the way you get outscored, like you typically don't get 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.200 out scored not hitting at all, or you know, just 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.000 we you know, we lost. Uh, you know, like the 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.040 White soxers saying we lost in a three game series 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.040 and we got swept and we only came up with 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.920 six hits over the entire series. That's what it'd be 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.600 like if they lost without hitting with runners in scoring position. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.880 So it almost feels like it's like the uh, you know, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.800 the horses behind the cart. They're just saying like it's uh, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.920 if they lose, that's probably going to be culprit no 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.920 matter what, no matter what team loses, it's gonna because 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.000 they didn't come up with enough clutch hits and that 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.640 means that they you know, they were out pitched as well, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.000 because that means that your pitchers didn't keep the other 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.200 offense in check and they didn't shut doors they limit damage. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.840 So that's why it's such a tricky thing to talk about. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:59.280 I mean, it's understandable. I think, especially with strikeouts, sometimes 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.480 you can point the finger at strikeouts and if they're chasing, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.040 if they are getting pitched backwards predictably, and I think 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.560 you see this with looking at strike three down the middle. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.800 I think that's maybe a case where you're getting out 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.240 thought where your plan didn't work. You're not having the 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.200 right approach. Like that's one thing where you can say 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.760 they're in their heads or they are just they once 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.120 they get to two strikes or once they get even 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.680 down one, their entire plan becomes scrambled. That's something you 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.160 can say. But I think if it's a case where 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.760 you're two for seventeen, but you strike out like four 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.280 times and you hit grounders or you hit like pop 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.520 up like, that's becomes a case of like, did you 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.920 do you have like the inability to hit in the 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.000 clutch or just have a normal series and you went 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.920 two for seventeen. The other team went three for sixteen, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.040 and that's all it took. Like the other team doesn't 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.040 necessarily upper form you just it's the margins are so 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.320 thin in a lot of games and especially the postseason, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.200 when the teams get better, that it does come down 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.920 to you know, one or two bets over the course 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.960 of a game or maybe even over the course of 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.520 an entire series, to where it's hard to you can 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.520 point to it. And certainly, like every team is looking 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.200 to get better, and the White Sox wouldn't say we're 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.040 fine with runners in scoring posision. It's just really a 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.880 hard thing to try to address and try to We've 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.600 seen the White Sox kind of do this before and 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.400 in terms of trying to diversify the offense, and they 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.120 just end up scoring fewer runs because if you have 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.760 less power, you score a fewer runs, and if you 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.600 try to sequence and stack all your hits, well that's 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.440 a hard way to make a living. So like, that's 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.560 why I tend to not follow this path too far, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.920 just because I think you invite creating problems by trying 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.480 to solve a very specific one. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.400 I guess the good news is they had that many opportunities. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.120 Like they're getting on base, they were getting hits, they 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.360 were drawing walks. Miguel Vargas drew four walks. He had 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.680 a great obp day on Saturday against the New York Mets. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.160 I'm going to talk of our Commi's cold right now, 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.400 Coles Montgomery is cold right now. But yet the White 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.800 Sox still won this series. I find that to be 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.879 a positive, and thanks to the home run, that is 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.520 a way that you can overcome if you're having difficulties 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.679 finding that one extra hit with runners in scoring position. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.359 I'm happy with the nineteen number. If the White Sox 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.600 were six for nineteen, maybe they sweeped the Mets, Maybe 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.639 they figure out a way to win on Saturday. But 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.800 I wanted to bring that up because that's one of 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.120 the stats from this weekend. But maybe a cap tip. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.760 The biggest out of all that happened this weekend, Congratulations 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.320 to Sam Antonachi. He now sets the new single season 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.639 record for getting hit by a pitch Jim twenty four. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.880 He did it, so congratulations to Sam. The new hit 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:54.040 by Pitch Kden for the Chicago White Sox. What an honor, Jim. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.280 Yeah, I liked that he did it too, on a 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.520 ball that barely clipped his leg, like a seam of 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.879 the ball hit a seam of his pants in that 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.919 being good enough, just a real sense of you know 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.160 his body and you know what can move and what 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.159 can't and what gets locked down, especially since later in 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.440 the game a j Ewing got his elbow out of 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.639 the way of a Grant Tailor fastball, and obviously you 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:23.600 know Grant Taylor fastball. Yeah you're not, Yeah, but Sam 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.119 and to not you know, like a guy with his 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.720 skill set probably doesn't get out of the way or it 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.600 gets like the right part of his shoulder or tricep 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.720 in the way and takes a glancing blow. And and 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.720 you know the that that prevented the Mets because Ewing 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.159 got of the way. You know, coward that he is. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.480 I say that jokingly because that I get invited to 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.480 stand into a batting cage and take a ninety five 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.919 mile per hour fastball or don't have any interest in 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.760 doing that, but just with without having I guess the 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.400 technique or Antonachi just kind of having that be such 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.240 a part of his game is just like I gotta 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.240 get on base no matter what, and I will especially 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.320 the bases loaded. Uh, you would imagine see that those 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.240 shoulders kind of fixed in place there and just only 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.680 rotating with the hip to try to get a piece 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.280 of them. But that you know, that changed the game 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.880 with you and getting on the way. So I think, 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:16.000 you know, it is a testament to Antonagi's ability to 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.040 just kind of understand where his body is going to 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.240 be and what parts can afford to be fixed in 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.480 place and still not miss a game. With this, I 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.760 will say that's a little bittersweet that. You know, Minni 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:36.160 Minoso held that record for fifty six so seventy years 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.040 share of it. Like Carlos Quinton seemed like he should 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.119 have lapped them, but you know he had the injury 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.360 in that one year. But like Minoso led that led 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.560 the league ten times and hit by pitches. That was 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.800 a big part of his game. That was, you know, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.280 part of how he got in base so much, and 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.360 then you know he ran like hell when he got 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:56.840 on the bases, and it was really a big part 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.640 of the identity of those teams. So to see him 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.560 not off that perch is a little sad, But then 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.400 I remember that Minosa is in the Hall of Fame 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.840 and all those little things of just like you know, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.080 you gotta remember how he's hit by pitches and how 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.080 he led the league in triples and stolen bases and 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.520 really redefined the game, and a lot of that's you 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.600 got to remember this guy is because he wasn't in 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.480 the Hall, and so now that he is, it's a 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.119 lot simpler to say, oh, he's a Hall of Famer 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.080 and then have that summarize or be a shorthand reference 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.200 for just how good he was in a variety of ways. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.760 Well, congratulations to Sam. Maybe he could get to thirty. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.040 He's currently second right now in Major League Baseball with 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.879 twenty four hit by pitches. Ivan Herrera for Saint Louis 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.879 has been hit by a pitch twenty seven times, so 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:44.679 we may have a couple of players who reached the 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.720 thirty mark this season. We're going to take a quick 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.800 break for a word from our sponsors, but coming up 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.000 next to the Sox Machine podcast, we're going to take 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.720 a quick review of the players that were acquired to 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.560 the trade deadline, especially Luis Castillo as he struggled again 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.360 in his start against the New York Mets, and we'll 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.159 also be reviewing White Sox versus Rangers next on the 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:08.399 Soxs Machi podcast. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.200 It's time to remind everyone why baseball is glorious, especially 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.760 nowadays where you could think your team is out of it, 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:17.679 but they might be back in it again. 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