We got a keeper in the rotation
Drew Thorpe, 23, made the jump to the majors from Double-A last month and but for a single hitch in his second career start, has been MONEY. He earned his third win of the season in the majors and is now 10-2 overall in 2024. In his pro career, Thorpe improved to 24-4.
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Baseball Savant
You don’t need to know anything more about how close a game was than the final out of the game providing the biggest win probability swing; Michael Kopech, with two runners on in a one-run game, got Josh Bell to ground out to first base. The play that ensured Kopech his eighth save of the season clocked in at 16.9% WPA.
Drew Thorpe, with his exquisite 6 1⁄3 innings of one-run ball, pocketed a 32.5% WPA.
Tommy Pham’s 109.7 mph single to right in the eighth inning takes the honors.
Jake Burger had a foul pop out to Andrew Vaughn that was pooted at 44.8 mph.
Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s infield single to Vaughn in the sixth carried just a .140 xBA. Nicky Lopez, who just seems to bleed lucky hits, had the most fortunate Sox bounce with his .150 xBA double into the left field corner in the fifth.
Lenyn Sosa saw his multihit game-streak snapped tonight, with no help from a 104.2 mph bomb that traveled 370 feet to the warning track in right field, with an xBA of .810. That ball would have been out of four of 30 MLB parks.
The only hit in the game longer than Sosa’s tough-luck fly was also a hang wif ’em, a screaming liner in the seventh from Brayan De La Cruz hit to almost the same spot as Sosa — just six feet farther.
White Sox 2024 Record 26-64, worst 90-game start in White Sox history (2 1⁄2 games ahead of the next-worst, 1948 White Sox) and tied for 29th-worst start all-time
White Sox 2024 Run Differential -160, tied for 53rd-worst 90-game start in MLB history
White Sox 2024 Season Record Pace 47-115 (.289)
Race to the Worst “Modern” 162-Game Record (2003 Tigers, 43-119) 4 games behind
Race to the Worst “Modern” Record in a 162-Game Season (1962 Mets, 40-120) 6 games behind
Race to the Most White Sox Losses (1970, 106) 9 games ahead
Race to the Worst White Sox Record (1932, 52-109-1*) 5 1⁄2 games ahead
Race to the Worst American League Record (1916 A’s, 38-124*) 9 games behind
*record adjusted to a 162-game season
CSW called strikes plus whiffs
Hard-hit is any ball off the bat at 95 mph or more
LI measures pressure per play
pLI measures total pressure faced in-game
Whiff a swing-and-miss
WPA win probability added measures contributions to the win
xBA expected batting average
