White Sox trying to keep right mindset amid funk

DETROIT — The frustration expressed by White Sox ace Chris Sale following Saturday’s loss to the Tigers, imploring the team to do whatever is needed to stop losing games, is not exclusive to the southpaw.

Third baseman Todd Frazier, who already has emerged as a clubhouse leader in his first season with the team, was focused Sunday on the offense doing more to help the team get out of this 6-17 drought in the past 23 games.

“As hitters, we have to learn basically you can’t win getting only two runs,” Frazier said. “When you go up in the game, you have to keep pushing and pushing and get as many runs as possible. It’s everybody. It’s me included.

“We just have to learn how to stomp on people’s throats, for lack of better words. The more runs we get, the more we push them down to keep them out of the game. We say, ‘Try to keep them in slam range.’

“A team is one pitch away, including us, from getting back into a game from a home run. It’s the biggest killer in baseball. You score runs and that’s how you win. We have to keep fighting as hitters and keep learning how to, that killer instinct. We haven’t had it the last couple of …

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