Closer than it looked: Twins 10, White Sox 2

Pretty easy to find photos of White Sox opponents smiling these daysThis loss, believe it or not, was a tighter tilt than you would expect by looking at the blowout score, as the game went 7 1⁄2 innings as anyone’s game before Minny broke open a can of whupass on Steven Wilson. A 4-2 score sneezed into 10-2 faster than that ball Jim Thome brutalized out of Target Field off of Matt Thornton almost 14 years ago to the day, and we are left to ... assess damage? Lick wounds? Count the days?

The franchise-record losing streak is now 18, and the countdown to the White Sox having an all-time (124-year) losing record is just three. Still, Pedro Grifol goes to sleep tonight and wakes up tomorrow with…