You know what was cool about today’s game, besides the presence of a couple of dozen 1993 Chicago White Sox heroes on their 25th anniversary day? The White Sox were shut out, 5-0, with mercy — no three-and-a-half hour losses here, bub.
That’s about it.
The closest the White Sox came to scoring was in the third inning, when Tim Anderson burped a blooper out to center, followed by an excuse-me single through the hole to right by an embarrassed Leury García, putting runners on the corners for José Abreu.
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But home plate umpire Adam Hamari, calling a zone built for tomorrow’s getaway to All-Star break and not a day game sandwiched in the middle of a series, rung Abreu up on a brutally low pitch which had the already-stoic All-Star practically turn to stone in the batter’s box as the game went to commercial break.