Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa calls for intentional walk 

Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa calls for intentional walk on 1-2 count again.

What can else you say concerning the work Tony La Russa's done as Chicago White Sox manager to this point without sounding extraordinarily long?

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The White Sox entered the year as World Series contenders yet are just two games more than .500 in mid-August.

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Totally, not that is every one of the a result of the making due, yet it seems like La Russa really offsetting there to make it seem like it is.

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Of the immense number of terrible decisions La Russa has made for the ceaseless year, his different impossible to miss calls for aware walks could take the cake.

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Also, plan to be blown away. On Friday against the Cleveland Guardians,

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- with the White Sox eventually down 5-2 in the lower part of the seventh - La Russa required another conscious walk around a 1-2 count!

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The decision to walk Oscar Gonzalez with the count at 1-2 came after Andrés Gimenez and Josh Naylor pulled off a twofold take to advance to second and third, freely.

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With first in the long run open, La Russa would have rather not added to Gonzalez scorn of the 1-2 count.

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