After Nick Punto's bases-clearing double in the sixth inning, Mark Buehrle was steaming mad. After returning to the dugout when Ozzie Guillen pulled him with two outs and the Sox down 7-0, Buehrle made the dugout feel his pain with Juan Uribe's bat.
A double to Punto is bad enough, considering Punto had previously bunted into a 2-5-4 double play when he bounced it off home plate and chose not to run. But Buehrle's biggest mistake was a 1-2 grooved fastball to Carlos Gomez the inning before. Gomez entered the game with three walks over 115 plate appearances, so Buehrle didn't have to throw him anything good.
But Buehrle did, and Gomez laced it to the track in left-center for a triple to give the Twins a 2-0 lead. Along with the three-bagger, Gomez led the game off with a homer, doubled and reached third on a Nick Swisher error and singled off Ehren Wassermann's glove (on a play Wassermann should've made) for the cycle.
The Gomez single started off a horrible night for Wassermann (1/3 IP, 4 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 1 K), made worse by Nick Masset, who gave up a two-run double to Mike Redmond and a three-run triple to Punto.
At least with the cycle, the fans got to see something happen, because the White Sox offense sure didn't provide any excitement. In a sentence, Livan Hernandez used a variety of mid-50s breaking balls and nearly threw his first shutout
since 2004, until Jermaine Dye spoiled it with a solo homer.
I'd go into more details, but let's save all the anger for Buehrle. Instead, here's how to sum up the Sox offense tonight without raising the blood pressure.
Wait for it...
...wait for it...
AWW! LOOK AT THE PUPPIES!
Record: 15-17 |
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