Playing in the earliest home opener in Cleveland’s history, the White Sox came up short in a 10-8 loss against the Indians. After giving up seven runs in the second inning, the Sox battled back against reigning AL Cy Young winner C.C. Sabathia and tied the game up at 7-7. Thome fueled the Sox with two home runs off of Sabathia as well as eight of the nine Sox batters tallying a hit. Seeing the Sox put up such good numbers on the offensive side of the plate is definitely encouraging for chances this season. Mark Buehrle had a horrible start being taken out in the second inning after giving up seven hits and seven earned runs which included two home runs. Nick Masset came in for the Sox and pitched well going four and one-third inning only giving up two hits and striking out four. All tied at seven in the eighth inning, Casey Blake hit a three-run double off of Octavio Dotel to take the lead. In the ninth inning Jermaine Dye hit a solo home run to try to spark a rally but the Sox came up short. Not a bad showing for the first game of the season against a good Cleveland team. Game two of the series is on Wednesday.
