September 13: Angels 3, White Sox 2
Posted by Jim Margalus on September 13th, 2009 | 0 comments
This was your garden-variety hard-luck loss.
Mark Buehrle pitched well, especially with a small strike zone from Angel Campos that frustrated both sides. He allowed only five hits and two walks, but Torii Hunter’s homer in the seventh made the difference.
What didn’t make a difference? Numerous at-em balls hit by the Sox. They out-hit the Angels 9-5, made Scott Kazmir and the Anaheim bullpen work harder (they threw 163 pitches over nine, compared to 109 over eight by Sox pitchers) … and they couldn’t get anything on the board besides two first-inning runs via a Carlos Quentin single.
The Sox stranded nine runners compared to the Angels’ two.
Record: 71-73 | Box score | Play-by-play
