White Sox manager Will Venable scratched Baldwin from Tuesday's lineup, mentioning that the injury occurred during Baldwin's preparation in the weight room. To fill his spot, the White Sox recalled first baseman Tim Elko from Triple-A for the third time this season.

That kind of day-to-day minutiae can obscure the bigger picture, distract from those once-in-a-baseball-lifetime moments: That this weekend in Denver, as the White Sox faced the Rockies, baseball’s official worst team ever was facing its upstart challenger,