Black Sox Blog

Only if the Sox could subtract the fourth inning of game two against the Cubs, they would have destroyed them 7-2.  However, the baseball gods won’t allow that and the nine run inning that featured two home runs by Jim Edmonds and put the Cubs on top for good.  One devastating inning cost the Sox the game 11-7 to their in state rivals.  Jermaine Dye and Dewayne Wise both had a home run for the Sox but it wasn’t enough.  Jose Contreras was pulled during the fourth inning amidst the rain of runs the Cubs were putting up.  Contreras went three and one-third innings and gave up ten hits, nine earned runs including three home runs.  Overall the Sox offense had a decent game putting up seven runs on eleven hits, but they also struck out seven times.  Compared with the Cubs fifteen hits and four strike outs, the Sox didn’t have to hot of a game.  The Cubbies go for the sweep tonight as Javier Vazquez takes on Ryan Dempster in the final game of the series.