Watch: Pinch hitter AJ Pollock has go-ahead double for White Sox
I don’t care how badly Notre Dame alumnus aj pollock has struggled so far this season. He plays for my Chicago White Sox, and I’ve decided I’m going to spread as much good news about him this season as I can, .600 OPS be damned.
Pollock wasn’t in the starting lineup Tuesday for the Sox’s series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team that traded him shortly before the season began. Eventually, the game was in a scoreless tie in the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Sox had runners at the corners with two outs. With the Dodgers opting to bring in veteran left-hander David Price in relief, the right-handed Pollock was called on to pinch hit. Pollock needed only one pitch to make Tony La Russa, his oft-criticized manager, look smart:
Pollock came around to score himself when Jake Burger hit his own double, and the Sox breezed to a 4-0 win from that point on. Pollock understandably has taken some heat for not hitting well during the first two months of the season. If he is to bounce back this year, this was a good step toward doing so.
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