White Sox Battle Fatigue & Guardians After Tough Series

But the team that they played into the wee hours of those extra innings was the White Sox, who then had to leave Boston last night after getting swept, which is just laughable given the fact that they had a lead in every inning, including the extra innings, and just could not hold on to it. But now they got to fly to take on Cleveland. They didn't land until about 2.30, 3 o'clock in the morning. Now they got to take on the Guardians at Progressive. Pretty good lefty there, Parker Mezek. Shultz is a gas can, any which way you look at it, here, for the White Sox. And if you're the White Sox, you emptied that bullpen last night. What'd you have, nine guys? So Noah Shultz is going to have to go. I'm shocked that they don't put a starter, like an opener, just to try to give them a little time to get some extra innings, because that bullpen is worked from that series against the Red Sox. I can't trust the Guardians offense. That's my problem here, Scott. Yeah. The overrunners, what, I'm guessing eight? Eight and a half. Yeah. I forgot about that, that angle as far as, yeah, the White Sox, watching that game, lead after lead, reliever after reliever. Oh, seven and a half. I'm sorry, seven and a half. Seven and a half. Okay, it's even worse. So, but you're right, you got a guy whose ERA starting is close to six, and Noah Shultz. Yeah. So, yeah, you can't go under. Parker Mezek's been terrific. You know, maybe, I think you said it early, maybe White Sox team total under, and not worry about the Guardians, you know, beating up on Shultz. And Shultz, really more importantly, just, I can see the White Sox saying, listen, dude, you got to take You know, I know you're pitching well, but all the guys pitched yesterday, all tired. You're going to have to go six innings, regardless. I don't care if it's seven up, you're going to stay in there. So, that would be the problem. How about the Guardians? The eight and oh under, and Mezek's last road game starts. Ten and two under in his last 12 starts against winning teams as well. Although the White Sox are the number one over team in all of baseball. 63-48, 15 more overs than unders. So, you got a little, you know, battle here. Cleveland coming up being swept. I just, I can't believe that, but they are against the Mets. And they're two games under 500. That's the worst they've been all year. Tied with Minnesota. Half game behind Texas for the final spot. You know, the under is tempting, but that open angle, yeah, I think I like three runs or less, and like almost every single start this year, I was really, I think like two or three, but other than that, it's three runs or less. He's a good pitcher. He all right, 2.57. Very good. Yeah. Yeah. So, give me, give me. And White Sox are a very left-handed heavy lineup too, normally. So, you know, lefty on lefty, I think Mezek's got the advantage. Is this a good spot for a nerfy here, Scott, you think? From Cleveland's standpoint, well, from the White Sox scoring, yes. Cleveland's scoring, yeah, they, listen, they can't score with a $20 bill with a cheap drop-off, right? That's what I'm saying. I mean, my goodness here. I think, you know, especially you got the White Sox that landed at three o'clock in the morning. They, you know, they're just going to go out there and go through. Schultz, as long as he doesn't give up anything crazy, but again, what on this lineup here of the Guardian scares you, they can't hit anybody here. So yeah, give me no runs or give me the first, give me maybe a couple of times through, you give maybe a first five here with Cleveland, if we can trust them. I, you know, cause I believe Parker Mezek's the better arm here. I think he's going to control the White Sox lineup who hasn't been great to begin with. Yeah, I think there's going to be an opportunity here to back, I just, listen, the Cleveland bullpen has been blowing lead after lead during, they've what, lost eight of their last, what, 11? They've been terrible too though, Scott. They ain't closing anybody out. They just swept by the Mets at home. So you're right. I mean, Cleveland's got the fourth lowest batting average in baseball behind only the Stankys, Seattle and Cincinnati. Cincinnati with the worst is really just like, wow, mind-boggling. I don't get it. Hitting in that ballpark, ouch, they have the worst batting average. Wow. It's amazing. But