White Sox manager Will Venable still prioritizes platoon matchups, despite Pete-Crow Armstrong's walk-off

When rookie left-hander Hagen Smith faced Cubs’ center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong Monday night to open the 10th inning of their eventual 7-5 walk-off loss, White Sox win probability had dwindled to 19.2%, per FanGraphs.com. But if TV analyst Steve Stone invoking the “Man in the Arena” passage from president Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech at the Sorbonne in Paris is any indication, those odds did but so much to soften the blowback to manager Will Venable’s decision to pitch to a National…