“What were the conditions like out there?” An unidentified reporter asked Tim Anderson in the locker room scrum. Anderson smiled coyly.
“It was wet.”
And, after a burst of laughter,
“We won, so not too wet.”
In fact, it was very close to being too wet, as the storms anticipated by Chicagoans for several days dissipated just in time to allow the first pitch to be thrown only to brutally reconvene in the second inning, by which point the Sox already trailed 1-0 on a Ty France home run.
It was an ominous start for a pitcher who entered the season much closer to a DFA than the 1.