Lucas Giolito is the right pitcher to set the tone against the Houston Astros, the chosen one to gather up the struggles and triumphs of the past few seasons and pour them into bottles of patented, portable, home-turf energy, to be chugged by White Sox pitchers on the mound at Minute Maid Park this week.
Through his continued reliability, Giolito has shown definitively that 2019 was not just a lucky season, but instead a glint of reliable promise. For the second time in his career, Lucas Giolito has posted 200 strikeouts in a single season.