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Gamethread: White Sox at Brewers

Ace Lucas Giolito takes the mound and tries to give the bullpen a little bit of a breather
Brett Ballantini|
Gamethread: White Sox at Brewers
Gamethread: White Sox at Brewers

One win into the four-game set with Milwaukee, the White Sox get a chance to secure at least a split by stealing another from Beertown. Lucas Giolito is on the bump:

News of the day:

And if you'd like some of the above news in video form, here's Ricky's pregame comments:

Can't say I'm a huge fan of dumping Luis Basabe before a fifth catcher, Nicky D or Ryan Goins. But those decisions are above my pay grade.

For Milwaukee, it's their ace, Brandon Woodruff. Avisaíl García is still in center field. It would be nice if the White Sox could exploit such a downgrade from Lorenzo Cain.

And I hope you turn the volume up for the end of Leury's press availability above, because his answer to my question about Luis stealing his fly balls is pretty sweet.

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BRETT BALLANTINI

Actor (final credit: murdered by Albert Einstein in "Carnage Hall"), musician (Ethnocentric Republicans), and Nerf hoops champion, Wiffleball aficionado and onetime bilingual kindergarten teacher, Brett Ballantini also writes about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey, for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and took over the White Sox beat after that. He currently is the editor-in-chief of South Side Hit Pen and beat writer for Inside the Rays. He also wrote a book about Ozzie Guillén but is running out of space, so follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and he'll probably tell you even more about himself than you ever wanted to know.

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