A seventh straight loss for the Chicago White Sox on Monday, this one 11-3 at Cleveland, was no occasion to mince words. The game was painful.
Ross Detwiler got the start, and with both hindsight and foresight 20/20, should not have, as the shaky lefty had thrown as recently as Saturday, and spun an extraordinary six free passes in his 18 batters faced. In a cap-tip to cigar-chompin’ old-school pitching coach Don Cooper, even a stint as an opener was not on the table for Detwiler, as the White Sox pushed him into a third inning, with predictable results.