The White Sox started out St. Patty’s day weekend in good fashion by beating the Chicago Cubs 5-3. Jim Thome hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning to spring the Sox up by two runs to never look back. Batting a miserable .194, Thome’s home run was his second of spring training and hopefully a sign that his bat is getting back to old form. Juan Uribe continued doing well by getting two hits of the seven total by the Sox. Surprisingly, the Sox managed to score five runs on only seven hits. Nick Massett got the start for the Sox and pitched a pretty good 4.1 innings and giving up six hits and three earned runs. Sunday the Sox faced off against ace Dan Haren and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Behind Haren’s five innings four earned runs and four strike outs, the Sox came up just short by losing 4-5. Jerry Owens and A.J. Pierzynski led the way for the Sox with three hits each and Jermaine Dye added a three-run homer in the losing effort. Battling the rainy weather, the Sox had chances to put some points on the board but left eleven men on base. Sox will look to continue to gel together in these next two weeks before the regular season starts.
