White Sox Breakout prospects, Opening Day lineup both melt in Arizona heat

William Bergolla Jr. got the White Sox Prospects off to a great start in Glendale — but the good fortune (and an 8-2 lead) would not last. | (Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images) For a year-and-a-half starting in 2024, the White Sox ran out one of the worst offenses in modern history.

Due to a combination of dumb luck and an influx of young bats, the club climbed out of its hitting tomb and started haunting MLB pitching in the second half last year. Unfortunately, this coming summer could begin the era of morbid arms, or creepy control, or hiccuping velocity. Based on Saturday night’s split-squad of sorts, starting in 101° weather despite a move of both games from afternoon to night, any one of those ugly options are in play.

And given that one of the split squads tonight was the Spring Breakout, featuring the best of the best arms in the system, help might not be on the way. It was just two games, true, so let’s not lose our heads over the combined 24 walks in the two games. OK, maybe lose your head over 17 walks from the Spring Breakout game.

Before tonight, have you ever heard of five straight bases-loaded walks (and six in a row total) as the endcap of a seven-run second inning against the defending world champions? Me neither. For a time, like, maybe 90 minutes into the never-ending Breakout Game, this was the headline I was running with: Lucas wepf; five straight sacks-packed passes fuels White Sox Breakout rout If you glance above, you’ll see that hed did not hold up.