Followed-from-work bullet-point recap:
*A 2019 game was decided in a 2019 way, as a James McCann opposite-field fly carried ... and carried ... and carried until it landed in the visiting bullpen for a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning. McCann saw two tough sliders before staying back on an 0-2 slider that caught too much of the plate.
*The slam capped off a game that featured the following leads:
- 2-0 Houston
- 4-2 Chicago
- 7-4 Chicago
- 8-5 Chicago
- 9-8 Chicago
*The middle of the order carried the weight. Tim Anderson had four hits from the No. 2 spot, with two-hit games from Jose Abreu, McCann, Eloy Jiménez and Welington Castillo in the spots behind him.
*Jiménez hit a hanging Will Harris curve over the batter's eye in center for his 20th homer.
*The homer atoned for a first-inning miscue, when he broke late on a Michael Brantley fly with two outs. Instead of ending the inning, he set up an RBI double by Alex Bregman.
*Iván Nova's complete game the night before came in handy when Jimmy Cordero, Aaron Bummer and Evan Marshall combined to allow eight hits and five runs over 2⅔ innings in relief of Ross Detwiler. Alex Colomé ended up recording the final five outs for the win. Bummer needed a 1-2-3 double play to avoid further damage.
*Anderson had his first triple taken away when a video review showed that the ball got wedged under the padding. I didn't know that could be reviewed, especially since Brantley didn't throw up his arms.
*The last time the White Sox took a season series against the Astros, the Astros won the World Series.
Record: 54-65 | Box score
