Frank Thomas made his return to Chicago this week, and in the series opener, he definitely made an impact. The good news is, he didn’t make THAT much of an impact that we lost the game.
For most of the game, the White Sox were down 4-1. Then just like last year, they stormed back and scored three in the eighth to tie the game up. Jermaine Dye and Brian Anderson both homered to account for the three runs. Then in the bottom of the tenth, A.J. Pierzynski scored on Pablo Ozuna’s squeeze attempt. Jon Garland had a decent enough start to keep us in the game and Bobby Jenks improved to 2-0 with two shutout innings to close the game out.
On Tuesday, we jumped all over Kirk Saarlos and by the end of two innings, we had a 5-0 lead. The White Sox kept running up the score from there, and by the end of the game, it was 9-3. Javier Vazquez improved to 5-3 and he gave up three runs on six hits and four walks with three strikeouts. Paul Konerko and Jermaine Dye hit their twelth homerun of the season and Jim Thome hit his 18th. Thome finished the game with three runs.
Yesterday was another close one, but Mark Buehrle got the job done. He gave up one unearned run on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts in seven innings, and he’s now 6-2 on the season. Jenks picked up his thirteenth save of the season. On the hitting side, nobody was brilliant because the Sox were held to six hits but Rob Mackowiak’s RBI single in the sixth ended up being the difference.
The Tigers are finishing up their series in Kansas City while we travel to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays in a three game series. It’s looking more and more like the Tigers are for real so we need as many wins as we can get.
