First, the good news: The White Sox beat the Tigers, 4-1, in the first game of a four-game series. Of course, you should always beat the Tigers, but it’s still nice.
Now the bad news: The Sox never had a runner on second. Or third. The Tigers only had a runner reach second or third in one inning.
You want to watch baseball die? You saw it tonight — five solo home runs.
As the score indicates, the Sox had four of those, so, for you dinger lovers, here they are:
Yoán Moncada, Jake Lamb, and Yasmani Grandal hit theirs off of Tigers starter Casey Mize — Moncada’s a kind of excuse-me, juiced-ball, opposite-field fly in the first (99.