It doesn’t matter whether it’s American League teams or National League teams. American League Central teams, or American League East teams. The Whits Sox just keep on winning. And they won their 30th game of the season yesterday. With this nice cushion, and Frank Thomas looking ready to come back, it’s hard not to be excited.
Yesterday the Sox beat their cross town rivals the Cubs in the first game of Interleague play this season. Freddy Garcia was awesome, going seven innings and giving up only a single run on five hits. He improved to 4-3. The pen did their job as well as three relievers combined to one hit the Cubs in the final two innings.
Black Sox Blog favorite Joe Crede hit his fourth homer of the year. Jermaine Dye also went deep for the seventh time this season. And Scott Podsednik stole his 25th base. It’s been a long time since someone stole 100, and Scott’s almost on pace to do that.
The team now stands 18 games above .500. This is pretty significant because of they play .500 ball the rest of the way, they’ll still finish with 90 wins and be in contention for the division title. This sounds obvious, but every game they win now means one less they HAVE to win later, so they just need to keep it up.
Frank Thomas has cooled off since his initial two for three game to start his rehab. He’s now four of twelve with one double. He’s going to be down there for a couple more weeks, so hopefully the Sox can keep on winning until he can come back and help the team.
I’ve always been a huge fan of baseball history, so when I run across a site that leans toward baseball’s past, I make a point to check it out. Jon Earving has recently started a Mets Blog called the Tom Seaver Fan Club. He’s just getting started, but he plans on doing some indepth analyses of Met’s greats. Be sure to check him out on a regular basis.
