Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports “What poor sucker is going to have to pitch in those games?” That’s what Meg Rowley requested final yr on an episode of Effectively Wild after MLB introduced a two-game sequence between the Giants and Padres in Mexico City. Those video games occurred over the weekend, and so they lived as much as these lofty expectations. Played at an elevation of seven,349 toes — greater than 2,000 toes increased than Coors Field, in case you hadn’t been advised a number of instances already — they featured 15 residence runs, together with 11 in Saturday evening’s 16–11 offensive explosion. Although Sunday’s sport began with one more residence run, this time courtesy of LaMonte Wade Jr., the wind was blowing in, accounting for the paltry complete of 5 homers. So far within ...

The Chicago White Sox are exhibiting to this point that strikeouts aren’t every part. Chicago’s pitching workers leads the most important leagues with 10.17 strikeouts per 9 innings. The White Sox even have a group ERA of 5.96 - solely Oakland is worse in the mean time. Those pitching woes are a giant moti...