Friday, July 04, 2008 - Posts

July 4: Athletics 7, White Sox 1

After a full day of early-morning work and 18 holes of golf, I pretty much slept during a large part of the game, waking up when there was noise.

I did see Dewayne Wise and Jermaine Dye make nice throws from the outfield, though only Dye's ended up in an outfield assist.  Wise got hosed by a bad call.

I did see Carlos Quentin score on Jim Thome's double, which was a gift run since Mark Ellis didn't know Quentin was going for it.  If Ellis threw home, he would've been out easily.

I did see them fail to catch up to many 89-m.p.h. fastballs, and get under/on top of many hanging curves.

Mark Buehrle looked off.

Nick Masset looked worse.

If there's anything else I missed, let me know.

Record: 49-37 | Box score | Play-by-play