CHICAGO — Few things came easy Tuesday night at Wrigley Field for the crosstown foes.
Bone-chilling conditions — a wind chill in the 30s with a constant light rain and a 23-mph wind whipping from left to right field — created a brutal environment that Chicago Cubs and White Sox players and an announced 34,206 fans endured during a 3-1 Sox win.
Rarely was the play entertaining in a grind-it-out game that pitted Sox starter Michael Kopech against a struggling Cubs offense. The Cubs countered with a bullpen game started by reliever Scott Effross after scheduled starter Drew Smyly went on the bereavement list before the game.
