White Sox MAGIC Number Keeps Dropping | Episode 135

Guardians lose on Monday.

Um, that means the White Sox will enter Tuesday 75 to 68.

They have a three-game lead over the Guardians.

Their magic number in the AL Central is now 16 following the Guardians' loss.

They did well in Houston.

Or excuse me, they did well against Minnesota.

Did not do so well in Houston.

Lost three of four there.

Um, I don't know why I feel like starting it on a downer, but I feel like let's just get some of the crap out of the way first and go from there.

Um, losing three of four to Houston, you lost five of seven ball games against them this season.

Any concerns about that as the White Sox potentially head into a playoff position where they probably have to run through Houston with the way that things are going?

I mean, to some extent, but it's a small sample opposite the regular season.

But the thing to me about this White Sox team and that Astros team is that there's nothing on paper, at least to me, maybe you guys disagree, but there's nothing on paper that makes me think that it's a particularly bad matchup for the White Sox.

Not that it's, you know, a great matchup or anything either, but in 2021, for example, when they last met in the playoffs, I actually did think that was a bad matchup for the White Sox.

But this year, I mean, Houston has a lot of right-handed starting pitchers that are kind of like good, not great, that I feel that the White Sox lineup matches up well against.

And their offense is not really what it used to be.

I mean, obviously there's, there's Yordan Alvarez in the middle of it, and you always have to be worried about him.

But other than him, it, it kind of reminds me of the Yankees, honestly, where it's like you can let Judge, you know, get his, but not really beat you, then you have a good chance to win the game.

That's kind of how I feel about the Astros this year.

So those games didn't do well, but-- Or they didn't go well, I should say.

But if they do meet again in the playoff, I'm not necessarily more afraid of them than I would be of a non, any non AL East team, essentially.

Yeah.

I mean, I, I kinda thought it was more the, the Sox kind of blowing some of those games than it was Houston really, like, outplaying us or looking like the better team overall.

Um, I'll, I'll say if, if there is anything, I'm a little concerned, and I, I will-- I think there's already people that are concerned about this before the Astros series, but it did make me a little more concerned about our starting pitching.

Um, it was nice to see Davis Martin bounce back after his aisle stint.