Things we noticed and heard Wednesday at Game 2 of the City Series, which the Chicago White Sox received 4-3 to brush the mini-series.
Ozzie Guillén arrives at Wrigley Field in good time, beaming after a chat with Houston Astros supervisor Dusty Baker about Baker’s 2,000th profession win. Frank Thomas is caught in site visitors. Guillén says he’s grateful the brutal situations Tuesday prevented them from having to come back to Wrigley Field for the White Sox pregame present. “I know for sure now there is a God,” Guillén says.
An ivy replace from a Cubs floor crew member: Not but … “but hopefully soon.”
Yoán Moncada could also be again subsequent homestand, Sox supervisor Tony La Russa tells reporters within the dugout earlier than the sport. “I was hoping there would be some miracle and he would be there for the weekend (in Boston),” La Russa says. He ought to know by now Moncada doesn’t do miracles.
Does La Russa like these two-game mini-series? “I like being in the majors and whatever that schedule says,” he replies. “I like the day off (Thursday), too.”
Sox normal supervisor Rick Hahn and La Russa convene on the sector for a pregame dialog, matter unknown. Both are seen laughing, so it wasn’t about pitching to Byron Buxton with the sport on the road and first base open.
A flyover in the course of the nationwide anthem? A weak try at attempting to make an early May, midweek crosstown collection look extra essential than it’s.
Sox broadcaster Jason Benetti displays on Tuesday evening’s sport: “It was like playing in a car wash.”
The Sox telecast on NBC Sports Chicago reveals Dylan Cease mic’d up on Tuesday, calling Tim Anderson’s opposite-field residence run and even predicting it will land over the Sloan sign up proper. “I die a legend now,” Cease says. “That’s all I can say.”
The Cubs telecast on Marquee reveals Ian Happ mic’d up on Wednesday. “Hey,” “hey,” and “yeah” had been among the many utterances.
Happ removes the ball from the vines on Luis Robert’s fourth-inning double, which ends up in a full of life dialogue between Benetti and Steve Stone on the ivy rule. If there was ivy, Stone factors out, Happ could be higher off leaving the ball there for a ground-rule double fairly than threat dropping the ball and watching it flip right into a triple.
Sox first baseman Gavin Sheets singles by an enormous gap between third and second, driving within the tying run within the fourth and offering proof towards banning the shift.
Benetti discusses the “Angry Lucas” Giolito that generally reveals up in the midst of a begin. “Usually it’s bad for the townspeople,” he says.
Cubs analyst Jim Deshaies factors out the highest 4 Cubs hitters are a mixed 0-for-8 with seven strikeouts.
In a taped postgame interview from Tuesday, Sox nearer Liam Hendriks is proven a printout within the bullpen earlier than coming into the sport. Hendriks explains it’s a warmth map of Cubs hitters displaying their strengths and weaknesses within the strike zone. “What are you looking for?” Benetti asks Hendriks. “Where they suck,” Hendriks replies.
Guillén and Thomas are proven again within the NBC Sports Chicago studios sporting blankets and pretending they’re shivering. Or perhaps they are surely. Hard to inform with these guys.
Deshaies factors out an umpire’s name within the outfield on a diving try by Robert was not referred to as out till Nick Madrigal tried to increase the hit to a double.
Sox left fielder AJ Pollock bloops one into proper area that Madrigal can’t attain after shifting to the left facet, offering extra proof towards banning the shift.
Cubs broadcaster Jon “Boog” Sciambi cites a stat on the disappearing pitch counts of contemporary starters: solely 14.2% of starters had been allowed to eclipse 100 pitches final season. But Sciambi provides the Sox had been second within the class. “He rode his guys,” he says of La Russa and his starters.
Every different ballpark in baseball has padding within the outfield, Stone factors out when Robert runs into the brick wall in heart to rob Willson Contreras of a success to finish the sixth. Stone says Robert made the catch regardless of being “hit by the bricks.” During the replay, Deshaies says: “All in all, just another brick in the wall.” For Pink Floyd followers solely.
After Madrigal steals second with two outs within the eighth, Happ is known as out a four-seam, 94 mph fastball from Matt Foster after two straight changeups. “Exactly the way Lucas pitched him in his first at-bat,” Deshaies says. Giolito caught Happ trying within the first on a four-seamer after a 1-1 changeup.
Hendriks is available in to shut out a White Sox win for the third straight evening. A fan close to a area mic might be heard on the Cubs telecast telling the ump to name strikes. “It’s cold out here,” he says. Benetti says it was a sport that “reminds you why you love baseball.” After the win, it’s again to the studio, and Guillén pretending he’s Stone crying.
The collection resumes May 28-29 on the South Side. Hopefully it’ll heat up by then.
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