I fell asleep with the White Sox down 4-1 in the fourth inning with the Sox having only collected three hits. I woke up in the bottom of the eighth with the Sox down 4-1 and having only collected three hits.
Good thing I didn't miss anything -- aside from watching the Sox do Paul Maholm a favor by lowering his ERA to 5.33 to 5.00 with seven strong innings.
The last inning was fairly interesting, at least. It featured:
- Dewon Day throwing a fastball to the backstop and stutter-stepping awkwardly, following by drilling Jose Castillo square on an unguarded elbow two pitches later.
- Bobby Jenks making a rare eighth-inning appearance -- he allowed a single before getting a double play, and the bullpen pitched two scoreless innings.
- Luis Terrero getting hit for the second time in the game, making it the seventh time in 60 plate appearances.
- Jim Thome (who tied up a game last year in Pittsburgh with a pinch-hit homer) and Josh Fields both representing the tying run, and both striking out.
- Alex Cintron drawing his fourth walk of the season with two outs, and Rob Mackowiak following up with an RBI walk.
- Andy Gonzalez ending the game by popping up the first pitch he saw after those back-to-back walks.
Other than that, pretty boring. Jon Garland limited the damage pretty well -- four runs on 11 hits, thanks to no walks -- but since he allowed three of the four runs with two outs, it was ultimately a disappointing outing.
Record: 27-36 |
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