On the fourth pitch White Sox second baseman Yoan Moncada saw Tuesday night against the Indians, he drilled a 429-foot home run to center field.
That is the right way for a 23-year-old major leaguer to respond to umpires supposedly expanding his strike zone — with a loud bat. Nothing else Moncada can add to the ill-advised controversy Sox manager Rick Renteria created this week by complaining will help it go away any quicker.
“He has as good an eye as anyone in baseball,” Renteria said after Monday night’s game. “Sometimes he gets some pitches called on him that should not be called — flat out, straight up.