White Sox Minor Keys: June 25, 2023

For all the attention paid to him during spring training and the first few weeks of the season, it's startling to realize how inconsequential Oscar Colás has been to everything around the White Sox's plans for the rest of the season. He's basically been written out of the show, like a South Side Mark Brendanawicz.

Colás hadn't helped matters, what with two homers over 41 games with the Knights. The other stats weren't bad -- a .289 average and a .363 OBP, thanks to 17 walks against 37 strikeouts over 179 plate appearances -- but if the strides he made with his plate discipline cost him his impact contact, then that might not be a trade-off that helps, especially if his defense remains woeful.

So it was refreshing to see him double his Triple-A home run total in one night, blasting off twice in Charlotte's 7-2 victory over Louisville on Saturday.

Granted, the second homer was a Truist Field shank -- 92.4 mph off the bat, and 340 feet to left field -- but average it with this gratuitous 108.3 mph, 431-foot bomb to right, and you end up with two run-of-the-mill homers.

Charlotte 7, Louisville 2

• Oscar Colás homered twice and struck out thrice.
• Carlos Pérez went 1-for-5 with a strikeout.
• Lenyn Sosa was 1-for-4 with a double.

Birmingham 2, Mississippi 1

• Alsander Womack went 1-fro-3 with a walk.
• Bryan Ramos, 1-for-4 with a double.
• Luis Mieses went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.

Greensboro 12, Winston-Salem 2

• Terrell Tatum went 1-for-5 with a steal of home.
• DJ Gladney, 1-for-4 with a strikeout.
• Wes Kath wore the collar and silver sombrero.
• Josimar Cousin jumped from the ACL to High-A: 3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K

Myrtle Beach 3, Kannapolis 1

• Jacob Burke's streak stayed alive with an eighth-inning HBP on an 0-2 count; he went 0-for-3 with a K.

ACL White Sox 5, ACL Mariners 3

• Colson Montgomery went 0-for-2 with three walks and a strikeout.
• Erick Hernandez went 1-for-3 with a sac fly.
• Nice start for 19-year-old Gabriel Rodriguez: 5 IP, 2 H,. 0 R, 1 BB, 8 K

DSL Orioles Black 1, DSL White Sox 0 (7 innings)

• D'Angelo Tejada went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts.
• Stiven Florez was 0-for-2 iwht a walk.
• Juan Uribe Jr. walked once and struck out once.
• Abraham Nunez pinch-hit for him and walked.