Indians Give White Sox No Lee Way
The Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins had something in common Monday night: Neither team brought it's bats to the ball park. Unfortunately for the White Sox, the Twinkies had the night off and didn't even go to the ballpark. By the end of Monday evening, the Sox wished they enjoyed the same type of evening.
Former White Sox punching bag Cliff Lee allowed the first two men to reach base last night then retired the next 21 in a row enroute to a 5-0 victory, his 20th of the season. Lee becomes the first Indian to win twenty games since 1974.
In what will become yet another controversy, Lee and Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski exchanged angry glances after Pierzynski popped out in the fourth. Both claim the other started it. In a related story, the incident was even more painful for Sox fans as they had to endure two innings of Hawk and D.J. regaling us with the animated history of bench jockeying.
But I digress. The Sox sent five players to the plate that had a .300 average or better against Lee and none of it mattered. What did matter is that Sox starter Clayton Richard may have a 95mph fastball, but throws like a girl with a broken arm to first base, which led to the first two Indians runs. Richard needs to learn that when you are facing a pitcher like Lee on the road, you have to help yourself. Lee did not.
Ehren Wasserman looked like the time he spent in Charlotte did him no good, although Boone Logan did look better (I think Hawk wet himself over Logan's breaking ball.)
The bats however did not arrive at the ballpark and the Sox fall back into a tie with the Twinkies who play the Blue Jays tonight in Toronto. At least we won't have to wait until midnight to find out how they did.
Tonight the Sox send arm weary John Danks to the mound.
Lightning Round
Former White Sox punching bag Cliff Lee allowed the first two men to reach base last night then retired the next 21 in a row enroute to a 5-0 victory, his 20th of the season. Lee becomes the first Indian to win twenty games since 1974.
In what will become yet another controversy, Lee and Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski exchanged angry glances after Pierzynski popped out in the fourth. Both claim the other started it. In a related story, the incident was even more painful for Sox fans as they had to endure two innings of Hawk and D.J. regaling us with the animated history of bench jockeying.
But I digress. The Sox sent five players to the plate that had a .300 average or better against Lee and none of it mattered. What did matter is that Sox starter Clayton Richard may have a 95mph fastball, but throws like a girl with a broken arm to first base, which led to the first two Indians runs. Richard needs to learn that when you are facing a pitcher like Lee on the road, you have to help yourself. Lee did not.
Ehren Wasserman looked like the time he spent in Charlotte did him no good, although Boone Logan did look better (I think Hawk wet himself over Logan's breaking ball.)
The bats however did not arrive at the ballpark and the Sox fall back into a tie with the Twinkies who play the Blue Jays tonight in Toronto. At least we won't have to wait until midnight to find out how they did.
Tonight the Sox send arm weary John Danks to the mound.
Lightning Round
- Getting Scott Linebrink back doesn't mean squat if the starters can't get the bullpen to the seventh inning. In three of the four Sox losses, the starter has been knocked out in the fifth inning or sooner. This includes Danks' last start against Baltimore. Of course, some run support would help too.
- I know the Milwaukee Brewers are all mad at the scorer in Pittsburgh for giving Adam LaRoche a hit on what could have been an error, but honestly, in the heat of a pennant race don't they have better things to worry about. Like beating the Mets. Or Ben Sheets' groin?
- Phillip Fulmer is officially in trouble at Tennessee. If you can't beat a team using their fourth string quarterback in regulation, how do you expect to compete with Florida, Georgia and LSU?
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