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

Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable has done a tremendous occupation successful his archetypal play with the club, with galore good moments passim the season.

However, successful the White Sox’s 8-2 nonaccomplishment to the Cleveland Guardians astatine Rate Field connected Friday, Venable did not person 1 of his finer moments, arsenic helium forgot a cardinal regularisation and outgo his squad dearly.

Just 4 batters into the game, White Sox starting pitcher Noah Schultz had loaded the bases, drafting a mound sojourn from pitching manager Zach Bove. One batter later, near fielder Angel Martinez ripped a two-run single.

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Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable talks with umpire Andy Fletcher aft the team's 2nd mound sojourn during the archetypal inning against the Cleveland Guardians astatine Rate Field successful Chicago connected Aug. 7, 2026. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Venable past went to the mound to speech astir an entreaty play but forgot that helium wasn’t allowed to bash so.

Under authoritative regularisation 5.10(l), "a manager oregon manager is allowed lone 1 sojourn to the mound per pitcher successful a azygous inning without penalty. If the aforesaid manager oregon manager makes a 2nd sojourn to the aforesaid pitcher successful the aforesaid inning, the pitcher indispensable beryllium removed from the pitching position."

Venable’s sojourn to the mound meant that helium had to region Schultz from the crippled conscionable 5 batters in. His gaffe was particularly costly, due to the fact that the squad mislaid successful 13 innings the nighttime earlier and taxed its bullpen.

Venable’s blunder meant that his already taxed bullpen was going to person to enactment 8 2/3 innings. David Sandlin, who replaced Schultz, hadn’t adjacent begun throwing successful the bullpen erstwhile Venable went to the pitcher’s mound; helium was conscionable getting escaped and stretching.

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Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable reacts against the Cleveland Guardians during the archetypal inning astatine Rate Field successful Chicago connected Aug. 7, 2026. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

While Venable said aft the crippled that Schultz was not going to transportation agelong successful the crippled anyway, helium surely would person lasted much than the 5 batters helium faced if it weren't for Venable's mound visit. The 43-year-old manager took afloat work for his error.

"Yeah, conscionable an inexcusable mistake by maine wherever we had an entreaty play that we wanted to execute, and successful the urgency of trying to marque that happen, conscionable wholly mislaid that we had visited," Venable said, according to MLB.com. "Obviously that was a mistake. So, conscionable messed it up."

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Sandlin, who was callup from Triple-A earlier the game, ended redeeming the bullpen, arsenic helium pitched 5 1/3 innings connected 96 pitches. While the circumstances of his entering the crippled were odd, helium didn’t marque immoderate excuses.

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Chicago White Sox manager Will Venable reacts to a telephone during the archetypal inning of a crippled against the Cleveland Guardians, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)

"I got a small other clip retired there," Sandlin said. "I deliberation I got astir 8 pitches successful the 'pen and past got to lukewarm up retired there. Can't marque immoderate excuses, conscionable person to get going. Felt bully capable and started disconnected great."

For the White Sox, it was their 4th consecutive loss, making them the past squad successful shot to person a four-game losing streak this season. They had not mislaid much than 3 successful a enactment earlier Friday.

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The White Sox (59-56) volition look to bounce backmost successful the 2nd crippled of their three-game bid against their American League Central foe, the Guardians (58-59), connected Saturday astatine 7:15 p.m. ET.

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