Black Sox Blog

Four pitchers combined to shutout out the Nationals today as the White Sox do their best to creep up in the standings.  John Danks left the game early with an injury and Jake Peavy got the bulk of the action with four shutout innings with seven strikeouts.  In all, the four White Sox hurlers struck out 13 Nationals.

Ramon Castro went two for three with a pair of RBIs.  Alex Rios and Brent Morel both had three hits in the 3-0 win.

The win puts the White Sox at 37-40.  The first step is getting to .500 but the Sox are only four games out (five in the loss column).  Their big problem is that 6-11 record in the division.  Flip that and the White Sox would be in first place.  I still think this team is poised to make a run in the second half so my guess is that White Sox tickets are going to be hard to come by in the second half of the season.