The Rundown: What to know about Cubs, White Sox in playoffs
Good afternoon! It’s Friday, and I’m frantically reading Lily King’s “Heart the Lover” before my book club discusses it this weekend. Here’s what you need to know today.1. What do I need to know about the Chicago Cubs and White Sox both being in the MLB playoffs?As someone who doesn’t closely follow sports, I admittedly wasn’t aware how our baseball teams were doing this season — until I heard they both made it to the Major League Baseball playoffs yesterday.While it’s rare for both Chicago…
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With a full-count take on a 93 mph Tomoyuki Sugano fastball down the middle, White Sox shortstop Colson Montgomery set a new MLB single-season record for strikeouts with 224 on Friday night, passing the record Mark Reynolds set in 2009.A long-levered power hitter, strikeouts have been and will be part of Montgomery’s game. The larger problem is his overall fall-off in production. Montgomery has 31 home runs and 87 RBI while playing solid defense at shortstop, but entered Friday with a .615 OPS…
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BOSTON – The scheduling craziness of the regular season’s final series keeps coming for the Cubs.After playing a weather-forced doubleheader against the Red Sox on Friday in Boston, it was announced that incoming storms forced the final game of the regular season to Sunday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the two teams will finish off the campaign at Tropicana Field, the home of the Rays.That game will start at 2:05 p.m. Central, the same time as every other game in the league on the…