The T-shirts given away Thursday night at Guaranteed Rate Field read: “Ricky’s boys don’t quit.”
And Thursday night, Ricky’s boys didn’t.
Four runs in the eighth inning flipped what was storming toward a 2-0 loss into a 4-2 win for the last-place White Sox, still the owners of baseball’s worst record. But this developmental, rebuilding season is all about the silver linings, and a bunch of them were on display in the comeback effort, even if that comeback was much the fault of the also-in-last-place Texas Rangers.
But, hey, Ricky’s boys don’t quit.
“That’s our motto,” Yoan Moncada said through a translator.