2007 State of the Sox

May 16: White Sox 5, Yankees 3

In bullet points, since I'm watching the night game while writing this:

• John Danks took advantage of the Yankees' patience by throwing a lot of first pitch strikes and pushing them back against the ropes a little.  The Yankees adjusted and started hitting the ball harder their second time around, but he managed to strand two with Alex Rodriguez at the plate.  Overall, he pitched economically enough to give him a shot at pitching well on short rest the next time around.
• The offense took a better approach, hitting more line drives.  The swings seemed shorter and more efficient -- I'm thinking Joe Crede's RBI single and Jermaine Dye's double.  Darin Erstad also did a nice job of taking a 3-1 pitch for an RBI single.
• Good call by Ozzie by letting Matt Thornton and David Aardsma close it out, and a nicer job by Thornton going four up, four down with two strikeouts.  He looks like he's back into midseason form.
• Melky Cabrera prevented the Sox from scoring two runs by robbing Juan Uribe of a profundo!, and nearly saved a third when he almost threw out Rob Mackowiak on a decently deep sacrifice fly.  It reminded me of the throw he made to gun down Joe Crede at the plate last year at Yankee Stadium.

Record: 19-16 | Box score | Play-by-play