If you’re going to finally win a game, it might as well be against the best. That’s the way White Sox manager Pedro Grifol looked at his woefully struggling team’s tall task of breaking a seven-game skid against the best team in baseball.
“I’m not going to tell you I’m in a great place, because I’m not,” Grifol said before his team got walloped 14-5 Thursday by the Rays in the opener of a four-game series at Guaranteed Rate Field. “And I’m glad we’re facing Tampa Bay. We’re facing the best right now in baseball. You’ve got to beat those teams if you want to go where you want to go and turn this thing around.”
