It’s crazy what happens when some parts of your baseball team can work to pick up the other parts. Tonight it was the starting pitcher, Zach Plesac, not having his best stuff and getting hit hard through the order. It was also Delino DeShields being ... Delino DeShields.
Plesac pitched 6.2 innings and allowed four earned runs with seven strikeouts. That doesn’t tell the whole story, however, as he was hit hard consistently by the White Sox lineup — not something you want to see out of your potential No. 2 starter in the postseason. His curveball was completely absent tonight, thrown seven times and not whiffed on once.