White Sox manager Will Venable forgets key rule in inexplicable blunder, costs team in loss

Will Venable forgot a key mound visit rule, forcing Noah Schultz out after just five batters and taxing an already exhausted Chicago White Sox bullpen.

Venable quickly put his team at a disadvantage on Friday night against the Guardians

Will Venable takes blame for ‘inexcusable mistake’ in Chicago White Sox’s season-high 4th straight loss  Chicago Tribune

Venable admitted he had "lost track" of his first visit to Noah Schultz.

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 h