White Sox manager Will Venable returns to face his previous team on Friday, while the Cubs have a 10-day homestand that kicks off Thursday.

Lenyn Sosa is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Friday in Triple-A Charlotte for his right hip flexor strain injury.

The Chicago White Sox have the Pope on their side. Will that be enough to counter the Texas Rangers’ bullpen? The Rangers expect to employ a bullpen game in Friday’s series opener vs. the White Sox at Globe Life Field as the starting rotation is temporarily shrunk to four with right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (elbow) on the injured list.

Pope Leo XIV fully embraced the White Sox this week by wearing the MLB team’s hat during an appearance at the Vatican on Wednesday. The Sox’s Instagram page shared the photo of the Pontiff donning the black Sox cap, which soon went viral.

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first American pope, wore a White Sox baseball cap during a public appearance at the Vatican, setting the tone for his papal style.

He is the first American pope and he took Pope Leo XIV as his papal name. Soon thereafter, it was confirmed Provest is a White Sox fan, not a Cubs fan as the other Chicago team initially claimed. He was even spotted in the crowd of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

There were questions around where Chase Meidroth would fit defensively in the major leagues, given that he rotated all over the infield in the minor leagues, but he's handled shortstop well in the early stages of his MLB career.

There's still a lot of road left in the season, but we wanted to see progress,” assistant general manager Josh Barfield told the Sun-Times. “We knew that we had some of these young guys coming up here,