Black Sox Blog

One good inning. That’s all the White Sox could manage this weekend. Fortunately, that one good inning resulted in six runs that ultimately snapped the Sox seven game losing streak. I really didn’t want to see the White Sox play a meaningful series in September, but when you’re a White Sox fan, you’re used to being disappointed. While I’d say an eight and a half game lead is “pretty safe” at this point, you just never know.

While our hitting was never good this season, it really went away this weekend. On Friday, we only managed six hits off of Mike Mussina, and while Jon Garland was pretty good, we needed perfection. A.J. Pierzynski drove in the only run with a single in the first.

Unfortunately, it was more then what they got yesterday. This time they only managed four hits, none of whom crossed the plate. Orlando Hernandez made two errors, one of which ultimately resulted in three runs. He threw a ball into the outfield that should have been the start of an easy double play.

Today’s game was better, barely. If you take out the fourth inning, they scored no runs on four hits. Of course that fourth inning was huge as the Sox exploded for six runs on four homeruns off of Randy Johnson. Chris Widger capped it all off with a three run shot and Iguchi, Rowand and Konerko hit back to back to back solo shots. Jose Contreras threw a nice game to earn his eighth win of the season.

The one “good” thing is, though Cleveland is eight and a half back, they’re ten back in the loss column. We travel to Minnesota and we get a day off before starting the series on Tuesday. Hopefully we do better then we did last week.