


09/09/41: Vancouver Mounties @ Chicago Black Sox - Win, 5-6. {Game 1)
Black Sox Prevail, 6-5, Over Vancouver
W: M. Peña (8-5) L: L. Klomp (11-12) S: G. Sosa (25).
HR - VAN: M. Sato (35), J. Smith (38) CHI: M. Wareham (17), F. Reyes (22)
Player of the Game: Mark Wareham, Chicago SS, who went 2 for 3 with a home run and a walk.
Cliché of the Game: Luis González, Chicago 3B, who hit a 2-run double in the 4th inning, said he was "satisfied" with the win.
09/09/41: Vancouver Mounties @ Chicago Black Sox - Loss, 15-3. (Game 2)
Multi-HR Game for Ortíz in 15-3 Win
W: G. Hernández (9-5) L: L. Gonzáles (10-8) .
HR - VAN: A. Ortíz 2 (21), J. Smith 2 (38) CHI: S. Morales (1)
Player of the Game: Alejandro Ortíz, Mounties 1B, who hit 2 home runs, scored 4 runs and drove in 5.
Cliché of the Game: "We'll relax tonight and get back after it tomorrow," Ortíz said after the game.
09/10/41: Vancouver Mounties @ Chicago Black Sox - Loss, 4-3.
Extra-Inning Win by Mounties over Black Sox
W: B. Pidduck (5-6) L: G. Sosa (3-5) S: R. García (10).
HR - VAN: R. González (1), A. Stone (24), J. Smith (39)
Player of the Game: Jeffrey Smith, Vancouver RF, who went 1-2 with a homer, 3 walks, and 2 RBIs.
Cliché of the Game: "Both teams played hard," said Vancouver manager Marco Goodwin.
Hot Take: This series began a brutal stretch of Chicago’s September schedule against a string of the Frick’s top teams, and the Sox are doing about how you’d expect: miserably. So, even though they hovered around .500 or just above for much of the season, you can expect they’ll finish the year well underwater. Spoiler alert: the Sox went 2-4 this week, losing this series, splitting with Hawaii and dropping the first game of a 4-game road set against Yellow Springs. Then, next week, they’ve got the rest of the Yellow Springs series followed by 4 at Nashville. Is 0-7 or 1-6 in that stretch out of the question? Not only is it possible, it’s probable. Will that at least translate to a better draft pick? Nah – because the Sox are mediocre-bad, not bad-bad. Mediocre-bad means you pick somewhere in the teens in the draft, which these days means you get mediocre talent, which breeds … mediocrity. Which, as it turns out, is our middle name. Chicago Mediocre Black Sox. Has a ring to it, no?