Black Sox Blog

A lot has been made early in the season about the White Sox adopting a one run at a time small ball strategy. Joe Morgan likes to call it small ball, but regardless, the Sox have started 8-4. Ozzie Guillen has been praised for getting back to basics, manufacturing runs, and in the process, winning ball games.

But when you take a look at the results, small ball has little to do with the White Sox current success. The Sox have scored 33 runs in their 8 wins. In five of those games, they’ve scored at least half of their runs because of homeruns, and in those same five games, they hit two or more homers. Two of the games where they didn’t win because of the long ball were 1-0 and 2-1 victories. It was only in their win last Wednesday that they scored more then five runs, didn’t hit a homer, and won the game.

Freddy Garcia got bounced around today. The White Sox tried to stage a comeback, but fell short. One more homer might have sealed the game up.