Saturday’s game featured just nine combined hits, two runs, three errors and 16 baserunners, yet still managed to tip the scales past three hours in length.
Smack dab in the dog days of spring training, you might begin to understand why beat writers start to turn the daily grind of games into a bit of a death march. Still beats being at home and in the snow, though.
The Chicago White Sox were on the hind end of a 2-0 shutout at the hands of Los Angeles Dodgers starter Tony Gonsolin, who breezed through three innings of two-hit, two-walk ball looking like Rollie Fingers’ hippie grandson, or the new lead singer of a relaunched Three Dog Night.