White Sox manager Will Venable appears to make one of the gaffes of the season in key game against Guardians

One thing seemed certain Friday as the White Sox opened a homestand against the division-rival Guardians at Rate Field, fresh — make that bone-weary — off a bonkers 12-11, 13-inning loss in Boston in the second-longest major league game of the pitch-clock era (since 2023): They needed starting pitcher Noah Schultz to hunker down and give them a bunch of innings. Instead, Schultz got one out in a shaky first inning before his manager, Will Venable, committed what appeared to be the gaffe of the…