Mark Buehrle found himself in an early hole after a strange defensive
gaffe, even by Sox-defense-behind-Buehrle standards. Buehrle should've
been out of the inning after Adrian Beltre hit a comebacker with
runners on first and second and one out.
Buehrle
spun, fired to second where Alexei Ramirez caught it ... 10 feet behind
the bag. Ramirez and Orlando Cabrera confused each other, and nobody
ended up covering the bag. The throw sailed over second base and into
Ramirez's mitt, where he was able to throw to first to get Beltre by a
step for two outs.
But Buehrle, as he is wont to do, allowed
both runs to score and then some. The single came on a decent pitch
that Jose Lopez muscled out to left, but Wladimir Balentien doubled was
belted, and the Mariners held a 3-0 lead before the Sox came to the
plate.
The game looked much brighter from that point on. After
Paul Konerko scored Jermaine Dye with a single that barely got past
Yuniesky Betancourt, Nick Swisher followed with a two-run shot to tie
the game after two.
The Mariners grabbed the lead when three
cheap singles pushed one run across, but Buehrle worked out of a
first-and-third situation with nobody out with a strikout,a lineout an
a weak popout to keep it a one-run game.
The Sox pushed it out
of reach thereafter. Orlando Cabrera started it with a two-run homer
after Juan Uribe's first walk of the game (that's correct), and the
next seven Sox reached, capped by a Ramirez RBI single that extended
the lead to 9-4.
Ramirez then gave the Sox double-figures in runs for the second straight game with a three-run shot.
Record: 71-53 |
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