White Sox are built to last in AL Central race

Just consider this one of those cases where you have to hit rock bottom before you can start moving back toward the top.

It might take a little while for the White Sox to get over their weekend in Kansas City, after the Royals pulled off a series of escapes worthy of a Dean Gunnarson television special.

From the White Sox perspective, the Saturday loss was as ugly as it could get — they couldn’t protect a 7-1 lead in the ninth inning — and the other two weren’t much better. The relentless nature of the Major League Baseball schedule had them back on the job on Monday afternoon, this time in New York.

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Chicago lost to Matt Harvey and the Mets, 1-0, with Neil Walker’s homer only the second one Jose Quintana has allowed this season. So it was just another flavor of bad medicine to swallow. The saving grace was the White Sox are now nine innings removed from the weekend in Kansas City.

There’s no grind in professional sports like Major League Baseball, and for the South Siders that will ultimately prove to be a good thing. They’ve already experienced the two extremes a season can offer — and we’ve got four months left to play.

Just as there was no way that they could continue to ride the highs of a 23-10 start forever, there’s no way the 4-15 free fall will persist.

The White Sox are going to have some more good stretches — and probably some more bad stretches — because that’s the way baseball works. In the end, 100 games from now, they’re going to be coming down the stretch with a serious chance to win a balanced American League …

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