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Kansas City Series Recap
White Sox @ Royals (Aug 15–17) — One step forward, two haymakers back
Welp… Kauffman Stadium was not kind. The Sox walk out of Kansas City 1-2, and the overall picture stays the same: the record’s ugly (49-75), but the games aren’t always boring — sometimes they’re downright chaotic.
KC finishes the series 63-61, still playing meaningful baseball, and they absolutely played like it.
Game 1 — Friday (L, 8-1): Death by the middle innings
This one was the classic “hang around… and then suddenly you’re not.”
For a few innings it felt like we might steal one, but Kansas City started stacking crooked numbers in the 4th, 5th, and 6th, and by the time we looked up, it was a runway game.
The Sox offense never really found the gear it needed. Miguel Vargas accounted for most of the damage with an RBI double, Edgar Quero kept fighting for hits, but it was a long night where every small rally ended with a whimper.
If you’ve watched this club all year, you know the script: you don’t have to lose fast, but you do have to lose eventually.
Game 2 — Saturday (L, 13-10): The game where baseball stopped making sense
Okay, this was the kind of game you can’t stop watching… even when it’s hurting you.
Chicago put up 10 runs and 15 hits. That should win. That’s a “post about it on the forum” kind of night.
Except… the Royals dropped an 8-run 2nd inning on our pitching staff like a piano falling out a window. Just an inning that never ended. Single, double, chaos, more chaos, and suddenly you’re sitting there thinking, “So we’re really doing this again?”
To the Sox credit, they didn’t fold.
The moment that made it feel real again: Ryan Galanie unloading a GRAND SLAM — the kind of swing that makes you believe, if only for a minute, that you’re about to write a very different recap. And we did claw all the way back to 10-10.
…and then KC did what good teams do: answered, took the lead back, and shut the door.
This one stung, because it was one of those rare nights where the offense screamed “WE’RE HERE,” and the game still slipped through the cracks.
Game 3 — Sunday (W, 4-2): A rare, clean win
After two games of getting punched in the mouth, the Sox finally gave one back.
This one felt controlled. Not perfect, not dominant — just competent baseball, which honestly counts as a luxury around here.
Edgar Quero set the tone with a 2-run bomb, and then the big separator came later when Luis Robert Jr. ripped a 2-run double to pad the lead and quiet the crowd.
And the best part? The pitching and bullpen actually held together long enough for the win to feel inevitable instead of accidental.
A series loss still hurts, but avoiding the sweep matters — if for no other reason than keeping the morale from dropping into the Earth’s core.
Notable News / Transactions (Aug 18, 2025): The future gets louder
And then — finally — a little “why we’re doing this” moment:
Top prospect SP Christian Oppor promoted to A+ Winston-Salem
Top prospect C Alfredo Duno promoted to A+ Winston-Salem
If the big-league club is going to keep living in the storm this year, at least the pipeline is starting to flash some lightning. Oppor and Duno getting bumped up together is the kind of small organizational win that makes the rebuild feel like it’s actually moving.
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