The White Sox produced sporadic offensive outbursts but have otherwise slumped badly since July and the trade deadline. The team won 10 of 14 games with roughly 293 runs during that stretch, but most of those wins clustered before the deadline. Since early August, the Sox have gone 2-11 and scored 51 runs in 15 games, averaging 3.40 runs, below their season average of 3.77 and ranking 29th in MLB. Position players who performed well before the deadline have cooled off, and confidence and concentration have waned even if effort remains intact.
Naturally, within hours of this column on the offense disappearing being written the White Sox exploded for 13 runs, their most this season, with several of the players written about here having a huge night. Nice for them, and yeah, then the lineup scored another 10 runs on Tuesday. But the premise still stands. I think. Though if a draft of a piece about hitting collapse serves as inspiration, South Side Sox will do it on a regular basis, to help the team.
Eight of those 10 wins came in July, before the trade deadline. The two in August were over the Angels, and one of those was against a starting pitcher who has given up four runs in every start but one in more than a month, and the other was a 1-0 win - and it's the offense that we're going to take a look at.
What offense? Reasonable question, especially since this is being written right after scoring five runs in three games in Kansas City. Since those two wins at the start, the Sox are 2-11. For August, they've scored 51 runs in 15 games, despite one nine-run outburst, for an average of 3.40, even below their season average of 3.77, which is 29th in MLB - though well above last year's 3.13.
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