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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Ready to go for Game 1
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Meidroth (hamstring) will start at second base and bat eighth Tuesday in Game 1 of the American League Wild Card series in Houston.
Meidroth's final regular-season start came last Thursday, as he dealt with a left hamstring issue down the stretch. He did appear off the bench Saturday, and the infielder is ready to give it a go in his first career postseason contest. Meidroth was one of the White Sox's better hitters in the second half, slashing .286/.364/.473 with nine home runs.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Sitting again Saturday
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Meidroth (hamstring) isn't in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Rockies.
Meidroth will get another day off to recover from a hamstring issue that's been bothering him as the White Sox aim to get him as healthy as possible for the postseason. Sam Antonacci will start at second base as a result, opening up left field for Randal Grichuk.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Battling hamstring discomfort
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Meidroth is out of the starting lineup for Friday's game against the Rockies due to left hamstring discomfort, James Fegan of the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Manager Will Venable downplayed the issue, saying that the 25-year-old is available off the bench. However, Meidroth is reportedly playing through a variety of injuries, and with Chicago now locked into the playoffs, it wouldn't be surprising to see him receive additional rest over the final weekend of the regular season.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: On bench Friday
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Meidroth is not in the starting lineup for Friday's game against the Rockies.
Meidroth has been running hot lately, collecting multiple hits in each of his last three games and slashing .385/.429/.615 over his last 10 games. However, he will get a breather Friday as the White Sox go with Sam Antonacci at second base and Randal Grichuk in left field against right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano.
Meidroth went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer, a two run-single, two runs and a walk during Tuesday's 14-11 win over the Royals.
Meidroth has blasted home runs in consecutive games for the first time this season. The 25-year-old started the scoring with a two-run single in the first off Daniel Lynch and later launched a three-run homer off him in the third. Over 634 plate appearances this season, Meidroth is slashing .271/.347/.409 with 16 homers and 63 RBI.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Flashes power and speed in rout
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Meidroth went 1-for-5 with a home run, two RBI, two runs scored and a stolen base in Sunday's 8-1 win over the Tigers.
Meidroth stole a base and came around to score in the second inning before launching a two-run homer in the fifth. The 25-year-old has gone hitless in four of his past 10 games, but he has managed five extra-base hits, seven RBI and nine runs scored in that span. For the year, he's slashing .268/.343/.401 with 15 home runs, 58 RBI, 87 runs scored and four steals across 629 plate appearances.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Three hits in loss to Cleveland
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Meidroth went 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored in Wednesday's 6-3 loss to the Guardians.
The second baseman did his job at the top of the order, but the rest of the White Sox lineup managed just five hits in total. Meidroth is batting .269 (14-for-52) over 15 games in September with three doubles, two homers, one steal, five RBI and seven runs as he wraps up a solid second big-league campaign.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Idle Sunday
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Meidroth is absent from the lineup for Sunday's game with the Twins.
After an 0-for-4 performance Saturday, Meidroth will sit out the final game of a three-game set Sunday against the Twins. Sam Antonacci will move over to second base and lead off for the White Sox.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Three hits in win
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Meidroth went 3-for-5 with an RBI on Tuesday against the Rangers.
Meidroth tallied three singles, the second of which drove in a run to put the White Sox up 8-1. It was a needed performance, as he entered Tuesday's game having gone just 5-for-39 across his last 10 games. Meidroth also recorded an RBI for the first time since Aug. 13, a span of 11 starts.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Making return to starting nine
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Meidroth (wrist) will start at shortstop and bat sixth in Wednesday's game against the Reds.
With the discomfort in his left wrist having subsided, Meidroth will check back into the starting nine after he had been relegated to a bench role for the White Sox's previous two contests. Meidroth will pick up a start at shortstop for the first time all season while the White Sox's main option at that position, Colson Montgomery, slides over to third base to fill in for a resting Miguel Vargas.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Homers in return to lineup
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Meidroth went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run in Wednesday's 5-0 win over the Reds.
Meidroth sat out two games while battling a sore left wrist. It didn't seem to be much of a concern when he went deep in the sixth inning to give the White Sox some breathing room. Meidroth has gone 10-for-30 (.333) with three homers and eight RBI over his eight games in August. On the year, he's batting .276 with a .763 OPS, 12 homers, 48 RBI, 68 runs scored, 21 doubles and two stolen bases over 114 contests.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Remains out Tuesday
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Meidroth (wrist) is not in Tuesday's lineup against the Reds.
Meidroth will sit out his second consecutive game as he tends to discomfort in his left wrist. Sam Antonacci will move over to second base again and bat eighth for the White Sox in their series opener against Cincinnati.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Tending to wrist injury
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Meidroth is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Guardians due to left wrist discomfort, Scott Merkin of MLB.com reports.
The White Sox aren't viewing the wrist issue as anything more than a day-to-day concern, and Meidroth is expected to return to the starting nine following Monday's off day. Sam Antonacci will fill in at second base Sunday.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Homers twice in extra-innings loss
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Meidroth went 3-for-5 with a pair of home runs and four total RBI in Thursday's 12-11 extra-innings loss to the Red Sox.
Meidroth opened the scoring in the third inning with a two-run shot off Ranger Suarez before putting Chicago ahead 9-7 in the 10th inning with another two-run blast, this time off Aroldis Chapman. Meidroth had gone seven games without a homer prior to Thursday, going just 4-for-21 (.190) in that span. Overall, the second baseman is slashing .275/.352/.405 this season with 11 homers, 67 runs scored, 44 RBI and two steals across 465 plate appearances.
Meidroth went 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored Sunday against the Rays.
Meidroth had a slow start to the White Sox's weekend series against the Rays, but he was productive in the team's blowout win Sunday. He's gotten on base at a .389 clip in 15 games since the All-Star break, also scoring 10 runs with nine RBI in that span.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Knocks in pair
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Meidroth went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBI on Friday against the Astros.
Meidroth was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the first inning to account for his first RBI, and then he tallied an additional RBI with a double in the fifth. The performance continued his strong July, as he's hitting .295 with nine RBI and seven runs scored across 17 contests.
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White Sox's Chase Meidroth: Four knocks in win
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Meidroth went 4-for-4 with two RBI in Wednesday's 4-2 win over the Rangers.
His first two hits of the game were RBI singles. Meidroth has had a fairly consistent July at the plate, batting .293 (17-for-58) with four multi-hit efforts over 16 games. However, just three of those hits have gone for extra bases, and he's added only seven RBI. Meidroth is batting .277 with a .729 OPS, seven home runs, 34 RBI, 57 runs scored, 17 doubles and two stolen bases over 98 contests this season.
