Gamethread: White Sox at Twins

Maybe a noon start will mean our fielders haven’t fallen asleep yet

All right, big day! Today’s a chance for the White Sox to match their longest win streak of the season at, uh, er, umm, well — one.

Heck, when you’ve got a 3-21 record you have to search for the golden opportunities, right?

Trying to kick-start that big winning streak will be Michael Soroka, who’s coming off three straight games of more earned runs allowed than innings pitched, but that was against much better teams, right? Maybe?

At least Soroka is mostly a breaking ball pitcher — only uses his four-seamer 20% of the time — and the Twins aren’t supposed to be able to hit breaking balls.

Meanwhile, Minnesota apparently decided not to waste another major league pitcher on the White Sox, so they moved Bailey Ober back a day to face the Angels and had Simeon Woods Richardson make the arduous 13-mile trek from Saint Paul to Target Field. Woods Richardson made the trip to the bigs back on April 13 and shut down the Tigers on two hits and one run, but he’s been hit hard in Triple-A ball this year.

He’ll face a Sox lineup that many fans will be glad to know does not include Andrew Benintendi, but does include Korey Lee.

Soroka gets a big break, since Sox-killer Byron Buxton isn’t in the Twins lineup.

Bright and early game time of 12:10 p.m. Central under what for Minneapolis in April is downright toasty weather in the low 60s. Usual broadcast suspects.

[Important note for fairness: The photo at the top of the page is of the 1890 Cleveland Spiders, who were WAY better than this year’s White Sox at 44-88, not the 1899 version whose record for futility the White Sox are chasing.]

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