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September 9: White Sox 4, Athletics 3 (13 innings)

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Nobody deserved to win this game. Fortunately, the A’s wanted it less. In a comedy of errors, the Sox had the last laugh, with A.J. Pierzynski’s double ending an awful night of baseball in nearly all respects. Alexei Ramirez started the 13th with a one-out single off Edgar Gonzalez. Pierzynski came up and sent one [...]

August 27: White Sox 9, Red Sox 5

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Hats off to Jayson Nix, who changed the course of this game with one big swing. The Sox had the bases loaded, nobody out and a 3-0 count off Junichi Tazawa, who only had one pitch and couldn’t even locate it. Mark Kotsay took strike one, then swung at ball four — and perhaps ball [...]

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