With the Sox’ worst starter down for the count and no great Plan B emerging from the wreckage, the next line of consolation is emerging in the Sox’ and Twins’ respective schedules, and specifically the impending doom awating the Twins away from their beloved Metrodome.

“No more balls lost against the white garbage bag ceiling!” the Sox believers say.

“Try rolling those cheap grounders out of a slow infield!” the faithful are chanting.

“Where’s your weird interior air pressure now?” they’ll ask.

As of this writing, the Twins are 39-21 at home and 26-31 on the road. With 21 road and 21 home games remaining, it would seem the boys from Minnesota are doomed to ride out this season a half-game back of our beloved White Sox. They can’t win on the road, the thinking goes, so they’re simply not going to win.

And this would all be great were it not for one simple, awful, ugly fact: the White Sox can’t win on the road, either. At home, they’re 39-18; on the road, 26-33. They’ll play another 24 at home and another 22 away, and there’s really no reason to assume the hitting-home-runs-in-a-home-run-hitter’s-park strategy is going to work every single night.

What’s worse, the Sox are actually up against tougher teams down the stretch with three apiece against the Angels, Rays, and BoSox, while the Twins are looking at four apiece against the Rays and Angels. Oh, and there’s the matter of the three-game Sox-Twins series September 23-25.

At the Metrodome.

So the Sox, down a pitcher and unable to win anywhere outside of the 60616 ZIP code, are still presumed to have the advantage over a Twins team whose pitching staff just received a huge shot in the arm and really only has to outplay one only marginally good team to take the division.

Of course.