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The tease might be the worst part.

They’ve won back-to-back games on numerous occasions this season, though not enough to meet their own overall expectations. It certainly hasn’t felt that way given their back-and-forth inconsistency. They’ve swept the Athletics, who were hapless at the time and hard to beat in the last week, in a four-game series.…

Twins fans are familiar with FOMO — the fear of missing out. Particularly when it comes to playoff victories over, oh, the last 20 years.

With Liam Hendriks on the injured list, the White Sox bullpen braces for a tough stretch.

The pitcher will undergo a second Tommy John surgery, adding him to the list of stars whose campaigns for Cooperstown were cut short.

It turns out the Sox aren’t so terrible after all. That’s why their disastrous weekend series against the Marlins was such a kick in the teeth.

Kendall Graveman, who had been pitching well, allowed three runs in the ninth.

The Sox’ pitching staff bent and bent and bent through eight innings of a 5-1 loss Saturday. Eventually, three outs away from what would have been the team’s seventh victory in eight games, it broke.

‘‘Why would I care about the playoffs right now when we’ve gotta worry about us and getting back to where we need to be as a team?’’ Grifol asked.

The Sox beat the Marlins 2-1 on Friday on Luis Robert Jr.’s walk-off single for their sixth win in the last seven games. Kopech will try to stay on a roll Saturday.

No one has hit .400 over the course of a full season since 1941, but the Marlins infielder has kept the pace up into June.