The White Sox have been effectively eliminated from playoff contention with an elimination number of two and remain on track for another 100-loss season. Manager Will Venable frames the remaining regular-season games as meaningful and emphasizes finishing strong while reinforcing fundamentals such as fastball hitting and aggressive baserunning. The roster is very young, with many players experiencing a full major-league season for the first time, requiring attention to routines in the weight room and training room. In Monday’s 6-5 win at Minnesota, the Sox used seven pitchers, homers by Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth produced an early lead, miscues allowed the Twins to rally, and two-out RBI doubles by Brooks Baldwin and Mike Tauchman delivered the decisive eighth-inning runs.
"We just want to make sure that we finish strong, on top of all the individual things that guys are doing on the field," Venable said. "We have a really young group and as these guys are experiencing a full major-league season for the first time, there are things that happen in the weight room and training room that we need to really stay dialed in on to finish strong."
"Those guys were grinding, really the whole game," Venable said. "[I] felt like we had quality at-bats. They came through in the biggest moment there."
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