2007 State of the Sox

September 30: Tigers 13, White Sox 3

Record: 72-90 | Box score | Play-by-play...(read more)

September 29: White Sox 3, Tigers 2

Three pitchers, three stories:...(read more)

September 28: White Sox 5, Tigers 2

Javier Vazquez didn't set the modern-day single-season franchise record for strikeouts in a season, but he gave it a good go....(read more)

September 27: White Sox 10, Royals 0

In a couple ways, Lance Broadway looked like a guy making his first major-league start. He showed some jitters when he walked the leadoff batter in his first two innings, but he also showed the adrenaline with fist pumps and various indecipherable exclamations after many of his eight strikeouts....(read more)

September 26: White Sox 3, Royals 0

Take last week's Jon Garland-Zack Greinke game and reverse the outcome, and tonight's ballgame is what you get....(read more)

September 25: Royals 9, White Sox 5

The White Sox knocked Brian Bannister out of the game in the first inning. Then they called it a night....(read more)

September 23: Twins 7, White Sox 1

Gavin Floyd made a run at a fifth straight quality start, but the Twins singled him to death an out short of the finish line....(read more)

September 22: White Sox 8, Twins 3

Jerry Owens started the game by lining a single through the box and stealing second. Josh Fields bunted him to third, but Jim Thome struck out and Paul Konerko popped out to end the threat....(read more)

September 21: White Sox 6, Twins 4

It took long enough, but the White Sox finally got their one win off Johan Santana this year....(read more)

September 20: Royals 3, White Sox 0

Jon Garland still can't catch a break....(read more)

September 19: White Sox 7, Royals 0

This is what Monday's game would have looked like if the Sox spread out their scoring. They killed the ball and received an even better pitching performance, this time by Jose Contreras....(read more)

September 18: Royals 3, White Sox 2

If anybody had any doubt that two of the worst teams in baseball were locking horns tonight, the fourth inning would have provided all proof needed....(read more)

September 17: White Sox 11, Royals 3

The White Sox probably racked up more hard-hit balls in the fifth inning of tonight's game than they had in some entire series. On the heels of some crazy run distribution yesterday, they went ahead and scored all 11 of their runs in that frame....(read more)

September 16: White Sox 9, Angels 7

Jim Thome finally smashed his 500th homer, and it came at a most dramatic time -- in the bottom of the ninth inning, sealing the deal on a six-run comeback. He's the first member of the 500 Home Run Club to reach the milestone via the walkoff.

The game itself was as dramatic as its end. After swapping eights and sixes earlier this season, the White Sox traded fours in the seventh inning with the Angels.

Mark Buehrle pitched better than his line indicated, but he received no luck from Lady Luck, his defense (Josh Fields could've played a warning-track flyball better, and Andy Gonzalez booted a ball to let a run score), or his bullpen (Ryan Bukvich walked in a run).

Even his two gopher balls weren't awful pitches. The first was the result of Vladimir Guerrero doing things only he can, taking an outside pitch over the wall in right. Juan Rivera just plain beat him on the other one, anticipating a cutter that didn't get in enough.

Yet the Sox came right back with four of their own, thanks to help from some unlikely sources.

*Toby Hall earning his second RBI of the year with a line drive single over the outstretched glove of a leaping Maicier Izturis.

*Josh Fields hit a three-run homer, which wouldn't be so strange had it not happened on a 94-m.p.h. Chris Bootcheck fastball. He's had his share of problems catching up on anything faster than 91, but he took this one the other way into the Bullpen Sports Bar.

Making matters better, Danny Richar tied it up with a no-doubter two-run shot to right center. Richar had a great day, scoring three runs on two hits and a walk.

All of that set up Thome, who came to the plate in the ninth inning hitless in his last 11 at-bats. Preceded by a Darin Erstad single, Thome took an outside-half fastball and took it over the wall in left-center to end the game, officially starting his Hall of Fame candidacy discussion in the process.

Record: 64-85 | Box score | Play-by-play

September 15: Angels 2, White Sox 1

I didn't get to see this game. Turns out I didn't miss much....(read more)