{"id":498108,"date":"2026-03-01T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498108\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:43:07","slug":"game-thread-white-sox-6-4-at-cubs-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498108\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread: White Sox (6-4) at Cubs (4-5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vov6 _16w9vov5 ls9zuh1\">Do you think players trying to make the team or holdovers trying to keep their jobs care as much that the opponent is the Cubs as fans do? They probably have other things on their minds, but thumping That Other Team in Town back in the first Cactus League game was sure fun for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The parade of pitchers for the Sox today will begin with lefty Anthony Kay, a presumed member of the starting rotation once games count. Kay gave up a run against the Mariners in his first spring start, with two walks in two innings causing the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cubs counter with rotation member Shota Imanaga, who had two scoreless innings but gave up three hits in his first outing. Imanaga will face a lineup recovered from the split squad games Friday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cubs lineup against Kay et al. also includes a number of presumed regular season starters, but not all:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vova ls9zuh1\">First pitch is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. Central, with temps expected to again get warmer than 90\u00b0. The Cubs Marquee network is covering the game, but the network of the team whose chairman hates fans almost as much as he hates players only has the game on radio. So if you don\u2019t get Marquee, pull the rocker up to the Truetone, pretend it\u2019s 1935, and dial up ESPN 1000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you think players trying to make the team or holdovers trying to keep their jobs care as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[221815,363,99],"class_list":["post-498108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-chicago-white-sox-discussions","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}