Black Sox Blog

If your a glass half full kind of person, the White Sox at least made a moderate move in the right direction this week. With one loss by Cleveland and one win for the Sox this week, the White Sox magic number is now 13. If you’re a half glass empty kind of person, then you look at the fact that we lost two out of three to the worst team in baseball.

Things started out well enough on Monday. Jose Contreras was good enough, and the pen also did their job. Aaron Rowand had three doubles and he went four for four. All six runs were scored by different people, as were all five RBIs driven in by five different Sox. Chicago even held off a late inning run by Kansas City to pick up the win.

Yesterday, things went a little differently. The White Sox had 9-4 lead before Freddy Garcia fell apart. While he didn’t take the loss, he was the biggest contributor as he gave up seven runs through 5 1/3 innings of work. The Sox took a two run lead into the ninth when Dustin Hermanson blew the game and the Royals scored three to win it. It was the first time in 105 games that the Kansas Royals entered the ninth inning down and came back to win the game. A few Sox hit homers, but that’s not even worth mentioning.

This afternoon, Mark Buehrle was cruising and the game was tied 2-2 through six when the Royals struck again. A four run seventh put the Royals up by a comfortable margin, and while the Sox answered with three in the top of the eighth, the comeback fell short. The Royals had eight doubles and Taz Iguchi had a three run double.

The Indians are off today and our lead stands at 4 1/2 games. It’s been months since things have been this close. Next we travel to Minnesota, and I bet they’d love nothing better then to put the screws to us. It’s time to win guys.