White Sox 2018 schedule includes early Opening Day, late Cubs

When Major League Baseball releases its schedules in late September, I usually process it in this order:

1. Opening Day/home opener
2. September schedule
3. Interleague schedule
4. Northeast games
5. Games near family and friends

This time around, though, we’re certain the White Sox are rebuilding, so you can cross off the stretch drive. Even then, No. 3 takes the place of No. 2 because the Cubs show up on the schedule in late September. In actual autumn.

The Sox and Cubs have never come close to squaring off that late in a season — unless you count 1906, or the City Series, which the White Sox won in most falls before World War II.