The White Sox play game two in their West Coast series with the A’s. Late last night, Jon Garland threw a gem to give the Sox their eighth straight win. The win also gave them a nice five game cushion in the AL West.
And with Jose Lima shutting down the Twins tonight (they’re tied 1-1 in the seventh), the Sox have a chance to widen that gap even further if the Royals can pull out their game.
In the meantime, I’ll throw out a Brandon McCarthy Update. He’s dropped to 1-2, but his strikeout to walk ratio has been nothing short of phenomonal (29/7 in 23 innings). He’s been a little prone to the long ball (3) and his ERA is nothing special (3.91), but you can’t argue with that strikeout total at this level. If the pitching weren’t performing so well at the big league level, you’d wonder why he wasn’t pitching for the Sox.
Centerfield prospect Brian Anderson has turned his season around. He’s now hitting .328 with an OPS of 1.045. Twelve of his twenty hits have been for extra bases. And again, you can never argue with a 16-4 start, but you wonder if Podsednik was the right guy to trade for.
