White Sox 8, Cubs 6: What on Earth was THAT?

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesLet’s be straight about this. The Cubs, as currently constituted, are clearly an inferior team to the White Sox. Thus, the Sox were — and ought to have been — prohibitive favorites in this series. I thought maybe, with Kyle Hendricks starting, the Cubs might have a shot at winning Friday’s game.

A 16-minute rain delay, four hours and 27 minutes of baseball and one spectacular blown save by former Cub Craig Kimbrel, the White Sox put together a four-run 10th inning and defeated the Cubs 8-6, though they needed three of the four runs once the Cubs scored in the last of the 10th.

Whew! Let’s go back to the beginning of this fairly ridiculous ballgame, which…