Game Thread: White Sox (0-1) at Brewers (1-0)

Hoping to avoid another one of these. | hazlitt. net One of the nice things about baseball is that even if you lose your season opener in a burst of record-setting ineptitude, you get to start Game 2 with the score 0-0.

Hoping to make it beyond the 1 2/3 innings Shane Smith lasted in the opener will be righty Sean Burke, who had a decent 2025 (4. 22 ERA and 133 strikeouts in 134 1/3 innings) and performed about the same this spring (4. 58 and 16 whiffs in 17 2/3).

On the mound for Milwaukee will be sophomore righty Chad Patrick, who had a solid 2025, with a 3. 53 ERA and 127 K’s in 119 2/3 innings. Patrick’s cutter-heavy arsenal will be facing a White Sox lineup with Munetaka Murakami moved up to the cleanup spot after being one of the only bright spots on Opening Day, with a homer and two walks (and none of the team’s 20 Ks).

The White Sox are playing a whole lot of defensive musical chairs, even though defense wasn’t the problem in the opening debacle. Luisangel Acuña moves in from center to short, Colson Montgomery shifts over to third, Lenyn Sosa is in the DH slot, Andrew Benintendi goes from DH to left, Tristan Peters tries his hand in center, and newcomer (or at least new this time around) Reese McGuire is behind the plate. Understandably, given the 14 runs they scored in the opener, the Brewers are going with pretty much the same lineup: First pitch is scheduled for 6:10 p.