Well, it was a nice run, al beit somewhat disappointing. In a lot of ways, this White Sox team was better then it’s World Series champion counterpart but that’s why you play the games. The White Sox need a ton of help and they have to win their next six games to have a shot at the post season.
The early parts of this series were pretty ugly. On Thursday, Ozzie Guillen spoke and blasted his team, with good reason. The Mariners blew out the White Sox and Jake Woods of all people shut them out on five hits. Not much good to say about this game or Friday’s game, which was also a blowout.
Things looked like they would hit rock bottom yesterday, but the White Sox came alive. Down 7-2, the White Sox scored four runs in the sixth and five in the eighth to turn the tables on the Mariners. Mark Buehrle was gone in the fifth inning but Charlie Haeger and Bobby Jenks really picked the Sox up out of the pen. Jim Thome and Paul Konerko both homered and drove in three runs in the 11-7 win.
The White Sox and Mariners combined for 41 hits today but the White Sox put 12 runs on the board to the Mariners 7. Freddy Garcia was hardly great but he looked awesome compared to what the pen did. Joe Crede hit homerun number 30 and I’ll get to that in a moment. Paul Konerko went yard twice and Brian Anderson and Juan Uribe both hit homeruns as well.
A lot of people had written Joe Crede off from ever being a great hitter. He’s always been one of my favorites (he and Brandon McCarthy) and the past two seasons I predicted he’d break out and hit 30 homeruns. Last year I was very wrong. This year I feel redeemed. Joe Crede definitely has had a fantastic season and hopefully he’ll cap it off with a Gold Glove. Unfortunately he won’t be able to continue his run in the playoffs.
Next up is three at Cleveland. It’s do or die, and a loss the rest of the way is unacceptable.
