Saturday’sSaturday’s White Sox game against the Rays was meant to be a battle of the aces. Turns out only one ace came to play, and it was not Dylan Cease.
The dominant righty and ace of the South Side starting rotation went only four-plus innings in this afternoon’s outing after racking up an unmanageable pitch count. (Things don’t often bode well when you have a 35-pitch first inning.) Cease was knocked out of the box in the fifth inning, with no outs and runners on first and second. He ended his day giving up three earned runs on six hits, walking one, and striking out five.