Happy Monday, White Sox fans, and happy Dylan Cease Day. There is a great deal of White Sox controversy exhausting us all, between soft chin Tim Anderson’s childish abasement, Keynan Middleton’s revelatory clubhouse confessions (and their confirmation from former players), and the evasive scapegoating by resident superclown Rick Hahn.
Melodrama aside, this evening’s White Sox win against the Yankees was weird. Dylan Cease gave up seven walks, yet maintained a no-hitter until the sixth inning, when he was immediately pulled to a deserved standing ovation.
One-hitter aside, it was a shaky start for Cease, as he played with fire in the second, loading the bases with no outs, just to bare-hand it to first to end the inning.