It’s amazing how one season can spoil you. Now, I just expect the White Sox to win, and while the Blue Jays are much improved, they’re not what I’d consider a road block. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the Jays proved to be.
On Friday, Paul Konerko homered twice, but that was all of the White Sox offense in the 8-2 loss. Freddy Garcia had his first really bad loss since the first week of the season and he dropped to 7-2. He gave up five runs on twelve hits in 5 1/3 innings. Garcia gave up three long balls and Cliff Politte gave up the other three runs in relief.
On Saturday, the game was a lot closer but the end result was the same. The Jays and White Sox traded runs in the second, then the Jays broke the tie with a run in the eighth. Juan Uribe tied the game up with an RBI single in the top of the ninth and that sent things into extra frames. Then two innings later, Shea Hillenbrand ended it with a walk off solo homerun off of Jeff Nelson, who had just been called up earlier in the week.
The White Sox finally ended their skid with a win yesterday. The White Sox scored six early runs and took a 6-1 lead, but the Jays got as close as 6-5 before the Sox scored an insurance run in the eighth. Jon Garland picked up the win and improved to 4-2 and Bobby Jenks saved his fourteenth game. Jermaine Dye homered and had three hits and Scot Podsednik had two hits and two runs.
The White Sox now play four in Cleveland, and not to get ahead of ourselves, it’d be nice if the White Sox could bury the Indians since they’ll probably be in the playoff mix come September. Thankfully we took care of business today and squashed them, but we still have three more to play.
