Gamethread: White Sox at Royals
All right guys, a bit of a quickie gamethread, I might be missing the game attending to a family matter. Hopefully the lineups etc. aren't outdated in the next couple of hours!
It's Nick Madrigal Day! The rookie is in the lineup, batting ninth tonight. Perhaps more astounding is that the White Sox ate nearly $4 million to dump Kelvin Herrera out of the bullpen after just two appearances. Serious business, this 2020 miniseason!
Tonight's White Sox:
.@NickMadrigal_3 makes his @MLB debut tonight at Kauffman Stadium! #ChangetheGame
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) July 31, 2020
⏰: 7:05 p.m.
📺: @NBCSChicago
📱: MyTeams App https://t.co/wjWZ87DzSs
📻: @WGNRadio pic.twitter.com/6Rqj81hR7Q
And for the grumpy Guses of baseball, the Royals, no lineup as of 3:21 CT pregame. (Ooh, gamesmanship!) But there's this tweet, so someone is awake at Kauffman Stadium:
The perfect stadium doesn't exi-#AlwaysRoyal pic.twitter.com/HYpPhOVCq8
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) July 31, 2020
(some funny responses to that tweet, including "if the park is so beautiful, why do you want to build a new one downtown?")
Oh, and read Colleen's Know Your Enemy. If you don't hate the Royals already, you will.
Actor (final credit: murdered by Albert Einstein in "Carnage Hall"), musician (Ethnocentric Republicans), and Nerf hoops champion, Wiffleball aficionado and onetime bilingual kindergarten teacher, Brett Ballantini also writes about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey, for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and took over the White Sox beat after that. He currently is the editor-in-chief of South Side Hit Pen and beat writer for Inside the Rays. He also wrote a book about Ozzie Guillén but is running out of space, so follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and he'll probably tell you even more about himself than you ever wanted to know.
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