Takeaways After Unlikely Arm Helps White Sox Shut Out Cubs, Salvage the Series

White Sox salvage Crosstown season series split, return home with four-game lead in AL Central

A laugher would have been nice.Even just a stiff breeze behind Jake Rogers’ seventh inning fly out to the wall, or a bloop hit with the bases loaded in the ninth, could have saved relief ace Grant Taylor from working back-to-back days.For a bedraggled pitching staff facing another week of games before their next off day, a 3-0 victory at Wrigley Field to salvage a season series split, wasn’t a perfect salve for every sore hitter, every tired arm…

Takeaways After Unlikely Arm Helps White Sox Shut Out Cubs, Salvage the Series

The Chicago White Sox brought things down to the wire again on Wednesday, but this time they managed to take down the Cubs.

White Sox take valuable lessons from crosstown series

Not that Will Venable’s team needed it, but in many ways Wednesday’s 3-0 over the Cubs was a reminder to a lot of people outside of the organization that one of the defining qualities of the 2026 White Sox is that they don’t get rattled very easily. With 126 games played, their longest losing streak this season is just four games. It took until the first week of August for that to happen. The Sox might shrug off losses, even the bad ones, better…