State of the Sox 2009
White Sox game recaps for the 2009 seasonrookie pitcher
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Briefly: *Jake Peavy survived a flurry of weak singles to throw seven scoreless innings, getting two double-play balls. He was late covering on a 3-6-1 double play, but made up for it by turning a 1-6-3 later on. *Jermaine Dye made a great play on one of the only hard-hit balls of the night, crashing [...]
September 16: Mariners 4, White Sox 1
On the first pitch of the game, Ichiro Suzuki laced a double to left-center. Yet it was the second pitch — a strike to Franklin Gutierrez — that carried the bad omen. Floyd did a baby hop off the mound, and would do it on just about every other pitch. He managed to strike out [...]
September 1: Twins 4, White Sox 3
With the potential game-winning run on first and nobody out, Ozzie Guillen turned to his best pitcher to try to push the game into extra innings. That’s right: Guillen called for Tony Pena. Pena alternated between outs and hits, but that wasn’t good enough. A one-out single put runners on the corners, and after Pena [...]
August 22: White Sox 4, Orioles 1
How John Danks escaped this game having allowed just one run over 6 2/3 innings is hard to fathom. With just one out in the second inning, he already had five walks under his belt. The out itself was a gift — Ty Wigginton drew the first walk, but tried stealing for no apparent reason. [...]
August 11: White Sox 3, Mariners 1
Entering tonight, the White Sox were 0-49 in games they trailed after eight innings. Courtesy of old friend David Aardsma, the Sox are now 1-49 thanks to Alexei Ramirez’s three-run homer. It appeared Paul Konerko missed the best chance to get to Aardsma when his deep fly to center landed in Franklin Gutierrez’s mitt one [...]
August 10: Mariners 6, White Sox 4
Note: k8t wrote this recap. The latest episode of “Rookie Pitcher Hassles The White Sox” featured a different storyline, but the same old ending. After four shutout innings on both sides, former Sox Ken Griffey Jr. of all people hit the two-run single that got the Mariners on the board, and the hits just kept [...]
