This is not looking good. With only two weeks to play, the White Sox dropped three straight games to the A’s and now sit five games back of the Tigers and four back of the Twins for the Wild Card. There’s not a lot of room for error in the next two weeks.
Jon Garland had been our best pitcher of late, and while he was good on Friday, Esteban Loaiza was even better. Garland dropped to 17-5 and he gave up three runs on nine hits and two walks with one strikeout in 5 2/3 innings. Rob Mackowiak hit his fifth homerun of the season in the 4-2 loss.
Frank Thomas came back to haunt the White Sox yesterday. He drove in four runs in the White Sox 7-4 loss. Again, Javier Vazquez was good but not great and the pen really got roughed up. Jermaine Dye hit homerun number 42 and both he and Sandy Alomar, Jr. each drove in two runs.
This afternoon was more Frank Thomas and boy did he get some paybacks in this series. Jose Contreras was knocked around in his six innings and A.J. Pierzynski hit his 15th homerun of the season in the 5-4 loss.
This week is huge. The White Sox play three against the Tigers and if we’re going to have a chance to make the playoffs, we need to win all three. The White Sox have owned the Tigers most of the past few years, so it’s time to keep up that trend.
