July 25: A’s 6, White Sox 4

Posted by Jim Margalus on July 25th, 2010 | 1 comment

Daniel Hudson stopped a losing streak from starting in his previous outing. Today, he was the chief reason why the Sox lost their second straight.

Hudson’s start looked an awful lot like his one against the Royals, except the offense was once again rather sleepy. The score shouldn’t have been this close. He didn’t have his slider, he didn’t have a real good concept of the strike zone, and mistakes on 0-2 pitches murdered him.

He took a 1-0 lead thanks to an Alexei Ramirez single and a Paul Konerko double, and gave it up with a four-run second.  Hudson got ahead 0-2 on three hitters during that stretch, and those turned into three singles.

Making matters worse, Gordon Beckham didn’t leave his feet on a grounder to his right.  If he stops it, it’s a 1-1 game with two outs, still.  Instead, rolled under his mitt and into the outfield, giving Oakland a 2-1 lead, and they scored two more, never to trail again.

The Sox did make it interesting in the seventh, finally getting to Dallas Braden with a couple singles. Bob Geren made one pitching change too many — Brad Ziegler struck out Beckham, but he called in Jerry Blevins to face Juan Pierre, and he and Alexei Ramirez dumped singles to left to make it a 6-3 game.  Geren then called on Craig Breslow, and while he got a weak grounder off Alex Rios’ bat, it was deep in the hole on the left side, and Pierre, who was running on the play, scored from second on an infield single.

But that just made Erick Threets’ embarrassing error loom larger.  The Sox trailed 5-1, and Threets was en route to pitching a solid sixth when Coco Crisp hit a two-out single.  Threets nearly threw one pickoff throw away, and when he actually did catch Crisp with his second one, he threw it into right field. Crisp scored from first, and that insurance run made a difference.

Record: 53-44 | Box score | Play-by-play

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