{"id":1964567,"date":"2025-08-16T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964567"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:00:19","slug":"game-thread-white-sox-44-78-at-royals-61-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/game-thread-white-sox-44-78-at-royals-61-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread: White Sox (44-78) at Royals (61-61)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The White Sox, slippin\u2019 and slidin\u2019 through the dog days of another lost season, lace \u2019em up for the second of three tonight in Kansas City. The Royals still have delusions of the postseason, while the White Sox just hope to finish at least 12-28 to avoid the outright second-most losses in franchise history. #Goals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sean Burke takes the bump against Michael Lorenzen, and not for the first time this season the White Sox appear to have at least a slight advantage:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for the lineups, well, when do the White Sox ever hold the advantage there? The best we\u2019re running out tonight is high-slug, not much else Colson Montgomery and running-on-fumes Mike Tauchman, again as our unlikely leadoff man<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There are no real matchup clues vis-a-vis pitcher-batter, but the best I can give you is Benny and Luis Robert Jr. having some significant PAs vs. Lorenzen \u2014 and not faring well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Strap it down for what could be a slugfest \u2014 or another eight-hit, one-run, who-got-thrown-out-how? ballgame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s another one of those double-duty Saturdays for me, so let\u2019s all just get through five White Sox games tonight together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.southsidesox.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox, slippin\u2019 and slidin\u2019 through the dog days of another lost season, lace \u2019em up for the second of three tonight in Kansas City. 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