White Sox salvage Crosstown season series split, return home with four-game lead in AL Central
<p>A laugher would have been nice.</p><p>Even just a stiff breeze behind Jake Rogers’ seventh inning fly out to the wall, or a bloop hit with the bases loaded in the ninth, could have saved relief ace Grant Taylor from working back-to-back days.</p><p>For a bedraggled pitching staff facing another week of games before their next off day, a 3-0 victory at Wrigley Field to salvage a season series split, wasn’t a perfect salve for every sore hitter, every tired arm in the White Sox clubhouse. But it was a welcome one.</p><p>“There's kind of a general level of tiredness that sets in everywhere at this time of year,” said Braden Montgomery, who protected a 1-0 lead with an outfield assist in the sixth, and lengthened it with a two-run double off the tip of first baseman Michael Busch’s glove in the eighth.
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<p>A laugher would have been nice.</p><p>Even just a stiff breeze behind Jake Rogers’ seventh inning fly out to the wall, or a bloop hit with the bases loaded in the ninth, could have saved relief ace Grant Taylor from working back-to-back days.</p><p>For a bedraggled pitching staff facing another week of games before their next off day, a 3-0 victory at Wrigley Field to salvage a season series split, wasn’t a perfect salve for every sore hitter, every tired arm in the White Sox clubhouse. But it was a welcome one.</p><p>“There's kind of a general level of tiredness that sets in everywhere at this time of year,” said Braden Montgomery, who protected a 1-0 lead with an outfield assist in the sixth, and lengthened it with a two-run double off the tip of first baseman Michael Busch’s glove in the eighth. “When you're in between the white lines, there's nothing else to pay attention to."</p><p>It also kind of fit how this White Sox team always manages to stay afloat.</p><p>Just when Tyrone Taylor’s leadoff double in front of NL MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong in the sixth spelled trouble, Montgomery–their Maserati of a right field prospect who has yet to even reach third gear–<a class="Link" href="https://x.com/SlangsOnSports/status/2090167519562621016?s=20" target="_blank" ><u>uncorked a 95 mph bullet</u></a> to catch Taylor advancing to third. Just when it looked like Alex Bregman, Tuesday’s walk-off villain, was about to tie things up with a blast to left in the seventh, the converted infielder the Sox play out there, who used to play Division II ball downstate in a home stadium called “The Corn Crib,” scaled the Wrigley Field ivy for a leaping catch.</p><p>“It was kind of tricky with that basket,” said Sam Antonacci, who tried to ignore the brick wall into which he was jumping.
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- <p>A laugher would have been nice.</p><p>Even just a stiff breeze behind Jake Rogers’ seventh inning fly out to the wall, or a bloop hit with the bases loaded in the ninth, could have saved relief ace Grant Taylor from working back-to-back days.</p><p>For a bedraggled pitching staff facing another week of games before their next off day, a 3-0 victory at Wrigley Field to salvage a season series split, wasn’t a perfect salve for every sore hitter, every tired arm in the White Sox clubhouse. But it was a welcome one.</p><p>“There's kind of a general level of tiredness that sets in everywhere at this time of year,” said Braden Montgomery, who protected a 1-0 lead with an outfield assist in the sixth, and lengthened it with a two-run double off the tip of first baseman Michael Busch’s glove in the eighth.
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White Sox salvage Crosstown season series split, return home with four-game lead in AL Central
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