It’s happened before this season. And it happened again Tuesday night. Rick Renteria is not going to stand one of his players not running to first base.
As much as the developmental stages of this rebuilding effort on the South Side are about moving players through the minor league system and transforming them into the types of talent that will fuel the next contending White Sox team, they are also about establishing a culture, a way of doing things. That’s where Renteria comes in, and the “Ricky’s boys don’t quit” mantra is a distillation of how he wants his players to compete.