The White Sox are in first place.
That’s been a rarity — heck, it’s been practically non-existent — since the team launched its rebuilding project after the 2016 season.
But that rebuild has yielded the fruit of contention in 2020, and the White Sox are playing winning baseball in the middle of this bizarre, shortened campaign.
A 6-5 walk-off win over the Kansas City Royals counted as one of the more dramatic during the team's current white-hot stretch, but it was a win, just like all the blowouts and no-hitters before it. The White Sox are 10-1 in their last 11 games and moved into a three-way tie for first place in the AL Central standings alongside the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians on Friday night.