Here's how the White Sox and Tigers will line them up in the finale of the opening series:
TV: NBC Sports Chicago
Lineups:
| Tigers | White Sox | |
|---|---|---|
| Parker Meadows, CF | 1 | Andrew Benintendi, LF |
| Spencer Torkelson, 1B | 2 | Yoán Moncada, 3B |
| Kerry Carpenter, RF | 3 | Luis Robert Jr., CF |
| Riley Greene, DH | 4 | Eloy Jiménez, DH |
| Mark Canha, LF | 5 | Andrew Vaughn, 1B |
| Colt Keith, 2B | 6 | Braden Shewmake, 2B |
| Gio Urshela, 3B | 7 | Paul DeJong, SS |
| Javier Báez, SS | 8 | Dominic Fletcher, RF |
| Jake Rogers, C | 9 | Korey Lee, C |
| Jack Flaherty | SP | Erick Fedde |
Clubhouse Notes from James Fegan
How long does it take for a manager to get a feel for his team? Longer than two games, says Pedro Grifol.
“I’m not there yet. We played a 1-0 game, and then we hit three homers in a game. So I’m not there yet. What I do know is that we’re playing the game hard. We’ve made a few mistakes, but they’ve been aggressive mistakes. We’re going on balls in the dirt, we’re double stealing, we’re running the bases. Our alignments in the outfield are good, our fundamentals are good. I just want to make sure we continue to do those little things right. Eventually, those little things turn into bigger things and they turn into wins.”
– Dominic Fletcher has a stated goal of driving the ball in the air more, but feels like he got into a better rhythm at the end of spring by being more choosy about deploying his A-swing and getting back to his two-strike approach.
“The last week I started to get more comfortable just relaxing, trying to get back to being myself and putting balls in play,” Fletcher said. “You’re going to have opportunities to take some chances and try to drive balls, but deeper in counts I need to settle down and get back to my game of shooting balls the other way.”
– Tanner Banks had a great spring and feels in a good place mechanically after stretches last year where he lost the hip hinge when loading on his back leg in his delivery. But he’s been told to expect the same Swiss Army knife, or “chameleon” role out of the bullpen this year. That probably means just as many multi-inning or swingman-like appearances as leverage work.
– Garrett Crochet wasn’t intending a Carlos Rodón homage by walking out of the bullpen to “Rooster” by Alice in Chains on Thursday. He initially thought he had to pick two songs, and wanted to mess with everyone by following up the slow burn of “Rooster” with “Every Time We Touch” by Cascada.
He likes to keep things loose before starts, if you couldn’t tell.
