I hate when the White Sox head out west. Things never seem to go well and this series was no different. Monday’s game was a topsy turvy game where the lead continued to change hands. The two teams exchanged runs in the first and then the Sox took the lead in the second (on a wild pitch no less). Then the Mariners came back and scored single runs in the seventh and eighth to take the lead. The White Sox then tied it up in the ninth on Brian Anderson’s solo homerun.
Neither team scored in the tenth and the White Sox went down quietly in the eleventh. Then Brandon McCarthy gave up a single to Carl Everett and Willie Bloomquist ran for him and stole second. Then Yuniesky Betancourt singled home Bloomquist and drove in the winning run.
The White Sox seemed to take their frustrations out on the Mariners on Tuesday. They put up thirteen runs on fifteen hits and five walks. Paul Konerko, Tad Iguchi and Joe Crede all hit a homerun and Jermaine Dye went yard twice. Tad Iguchi’s box scored was very solid. He went two for five with four RBIs and three runs. Javier Vazquez threw well enough and improved to 2-1. He gave up two runs on four hits in six innings. Boone Logan gave up a run on three hits in the final three frames and he earned his first career save.
The Sox could have used some of those runs last night. The Sox dropped the series finalle and notched only a single run on five hits. Juan Uribe drove in the lone White Sox run and Paul Konerko had two hits. Mark Buehrle lost his first game of the season. He gave up four runs on seven hits in seven innings. Bobby Jenks was tagged ffor a single run on two hits in the eighth inning.
The next stop for the Sox is Anaheim. As it stands, the Sox are still in first place and they’re a game and a half ahead of the Tigers, who dropped two of three to the Angels. The Sox have been very good at home (9-3) and not so good on the road (5-4). Hopefully they’ll be able to turn that around this weekend.
