The 2006 Chicago White Sox
are still dead.
A no-name lefty shut them down, and the Sox defense played like crap. Javier Vazquez pitched well, and all but one of his runs should've been unearned. He struck out 12, and Raul Ibanez's solo shot in the seventh was Vazquez's only real mistake.
Otherwise, an unearned run scored in the second when Juan Uribe dropped a two-out pop-up, and then Paul Konerko committed two errors in the same inning, but only one counted. He threw high to Uribe on a force attempt at second, and then found himself screened by the runner on a routine grounder to first. Since he didn't get a glove on it, no error was charged.
It didn't really matter, as the Mariners showed up the Sox in every way. They played errorless ball, and Jake Woods dominated the Sox. He conked Pablo Ozuna in the head with a fastball, and the Sox offense remained stagnant. Meanwhile, when Boone Logan hit Yuniesky Betancourt in the kneecap in the ninth inning, the Mariners retaliated by loading the bases on Logan, and then hitting a grand slam off David Riske.
Meanwhile, Joe Crede is now hitless in his last 25 at-bats. At least he didn't hit into any double plays.
It's time to play the kids already.
Record: 85-68 |
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