Reynaldo Lopez was excellent Monday night.
He's been excellent before. In all likelihood, he'll be excellent again. But the challenge for him and fellow young starting pitcher Lucas Giolito isn't to be excellent once, to be excellent every now and then. It's to be excellent most of the time. All of the time.
And Lopez feels that in this critical learning season, as the White Sox inch closer to the transition from rebuilding to contending, that he's close to finding the consistency that's proved so elusive for so many White Sox players in recent years.
"I am very close.