{"id":2415935,"date":"2026-05-14T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2415935"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:27:28","slug":"will-venable-white-sox-enjoyment-playing-together-making-difference-in-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-venable-white-sox-enjoyment-playing-together-making-difference-in-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Venable: White Sox&#8217; enjoyment playing together making difference in results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Outfielder Derek Hill played for five other major-league clubs before joining the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/white-sox\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">White Sox<\/a> in September. Though none of them finished above .500 in his time with them, his remark Tuesday about the Sox still was notable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most fun I\u2019ve ever had playing baseball. It\u2019s incredible,\u201d Hill said. \u201cEvery guy\u2019s pulling from the same side. Whoever gets called up, traded over here, doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hill said that after hitting a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and making a diving catch in the ninth, so maybe he was just caught up in the moment. Besides, many of the Sox\u2019 players only know of losing with the organization, which has endured three consecutive 100-plus-loss seasons. How much fun could they possibly have?<\/p>\n<p>But listening to others in the clubhouse, there might be something to Hill\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love my teammates here,\u201d second baseman Chase Meidroth said. \u201cWe know what we\u2019re playing for. It\u2019s a lot more than for ourselves. We\u2019re playing for each other. The energy is natural. It\u2019s easy when you come to this locker room [because] you know you got this group of guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manager Will Venable thinks that\u2019s one reason for the Sox\u2019 revival, which had them within one game of .500 entering Wednesday for the third time this season. It also had them at 20 wins, which they didn\u2019t reach last season until June 5 (20-43).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that makes a very big difference,\u201d Venable said of the players\u2019 enjoyment playing with each other. \u201cIt helps these guys hold each other accountable, give each other energy every day and communicate well. We\u2019re seeing it show up in everything that they do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really started from day one, in everything that we do, it comes up that they believe in each other. Everything that we do in meetings on the field, we talk about games afterwards, I just get the sense that that connection is what\u2019s making the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>AL Central parity<\/h3>\n<p>The Sox entered Wednesday in second place, 1\u00bd games behind the first-place Guardians, in a tightly packed American League Central. All five teams were separated by three games. Venable was asked whether he thought the division would stay so close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea. Teams go on runs,\u201d he said. \u201cYou think about us and the fact that we\u2019ve played five games against our divisional opponents, and it\u2019s all against [the Royals]. So I really don\u2019t have a good feel for the division outside just the records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a long way to go. We\u2019re excited no one has run off with it yet. We\u2019ll just keep doing our thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sox finally will face a division foe other than the Royals on May 25, when they open a seven-game homestand with the Twins and Tigers.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>The game Wednesday was delayed in the fourth inning to treat a fan who had fallen into the Royals\u2019 bullpen beyond the right-field wall. The fan was transported to a hospital for more treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jen Pawol worked the plate, making her the first woman to call balls and strikes for an MLB game in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Catcher Kyle Teel went 1-for-4 with a run scored, a walk and a strikeout batting third as the designated hitter in his second injury rehab outing for Triple-A Charlotte. He homered in his first game Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Right-hander Prelander Berroa, who has been on the injured list since having Tommy John surgery in March 2025, was scheduled to begin a rehab assignment in the Arizona Complex League.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PageListL\" data-module=\"\" data-hide-authors=\"true\" data-hide-categories=\"true\" data-hide-dates=\"true\" data-show-loadmore=\"true\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"list-4a0005\" name=\"list-4a0005\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"PageListL-items\" data-with-borders=\"\">\n<div class=\"PageListL-items-item\">\n<div class=\"PagePromoB\">\n<div class=\"PagePromoB-content\">\n<p>Asked when he realized Romo had a power stroke, manager Will Venable replied, \u201cWhen he started hitting homers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"PagePromo-byline\">\n<p>\n                    <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1778715631000\" data-promo=\"true\"><br \/>\n                        <template data-date-tpl=\"\">[month] [day], 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Though none of them finished above .500 in his time with them, his remark Tuesday about the Sox still was notable. \u201cThis is the most fun I\u2019ve ever had playing baseball. It\u2019s incredible,\u201d Hill said. \u201cEvery guy\u2019s pulling from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Will-Venable-White-Sox-enjoyment-playing-together-making-difference-in.com2Fbrightspot2F732Fe02Fc81.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415937,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415935\/revisions\/2415937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}