If the White Sox struggle, I know more and more people will begin questioning Ozzie Guillen. The White Sox took a one run lead into the eighth inning and Brandon McCarthy had just thrown great the inning before. He threw 17 pitches and eleven of them were for strikes. For whatever reason, Guillen went to the rookie, Boone Logan in the eighth inning and Logan gave up a solo homerun to Travis Hafner that tied the game up. Why he didn’t let McCarthy throw in the ninth is beyond me.
Then the White Sox couldn’t seem to get the job done with the bats. In the bottom of the eighth they had runners on first and third with one out and couldn’t bring anyone home. In the bottom of the ninth, they had runners on first and second with one out and the bases loaded with two outs, and again, couldn’t get a run across.
In the top of the eleventh, Neal Cotts gave up the go ahead run. The White Sox got their leadoff hitter on in the bottom of the eleventh (Iguchi walked) but couldn’t tie it up.
It’s early and it’s against a good team so it’s not inexcusable. The White Sox get the day off tomorrow and then they travel to Kansas City, who were destroyed by the Tigers today. Two of three is neccesity and a sweep would be preferable.
