Brayan Rocchio\u2019s two-run double<\/a> Tuesday night was his fourth walk-off hit in September in four big-league seasons.<\/p>\nPetey Halpin \u2014 a late-September call-up last season \u2014 hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe younger guys lean on a lot of the veterans, asking questions, asking how they feel and calming us down,\u201d Halpin said. \u201cI\u2019ve looked at guys in the dugout, and you can see them kind of in it, involved, ready, and you feel that, and it gives you the confidence to be like, \u2018No, I belong here. I can do this. Let\u2019s keep going. Let\u2019s keep winning.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The White Sox \u2014 looking to become the first team in major league history to make the postseason after losing 100-plus games in each of the previous two seasons \u2014 can move back into a tie atop the division with a win over Detroit Thursday night to start a four-game series.<\/p>\n
After facing the Tigers, Chicago ends the season with three games at Kansas City and hosting Colorado for three games.<\/p>\n
The White Sox have dropped seven of nine and 12 of 17, but manager Will Venable was trying to keep a tight focus.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of how this series went, we knew that this wasn\u2019t going to define how the end of this year goes for us,\u201d he said. \u201cSo yeah, tough to not have that lead, but at the same time, we got a long way to go here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even though they aren\u2019t leading the division, the White Sox have a 1 1\/2 game lead over Texas and Toronto for the last AL wild-card spot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really difficult right now,\u201d Chicago outfielder Tommy Pham said. \u201cEvery game is like a must-win. You have to make the plays, and you have to do the winning thing every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Stephen Vogt and the Cleveland Guardians are used to the late-season pressure of trying not only to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,6115,591,44,12293,143547,85,39],"class_list":["post-895294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}