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I do love to see Gavin not going with the slide-step there. Quality adjustment he's made.

That works!

Gavin making a lot of bad pitches this inning.

Nice job by ADA out there

How far was Youk's homer?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 09:00 PM) And nearly all of our hitters have decided to play into his hands by dramatically expanding their strike zones so far today. Same thing they did most of last night. Thankfully Toronto's defense handed us that game.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 09:53 PM) Dumb ump alert...Grienke ejected in first before recording an out for spiking the baseball. Umps need common sense. Ha, the poor scouts who flew there to watch him pitch.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 09:47 PM) Good Romero showed up too though. That's because nearly every LHP is a bad match-up for the Sox. The splits for a majority of our hitter are significantly worse against LHP.

Well, that wasn't good

QUOTE (johnnymick @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 09:29 PM) Only change ups to Paulie. Guess they know what he has trouble with. Probably the biggest reason he's hitting almost .80 points better against RHP this year.

I know it's not how they used to calculate game winning RBIs, but Youk knocking in the 3rd run ended up being the difference.

WINNER! First place at the break

Nice catch/communication out there

Don't get that pitch to Lind. He's swung and miss every offspeed pitch he's seen, it seems like.

Ugh, 2 on, no outs. Gotta throw some offspeed pitches.

Minor league update: Kale Kiser of Bristol hit a 2 out, 2 run homer to avoid Bristol getting no hit Jared Mitchell with 2 homers, 2 walks, 2 steals

Thornton doing his best Clayton Kershaw impression

AJ's calling a great game against a superior fastball hitting team.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 03:18 AM) 2.85 ERA vs. 3.59 ERA He deserves it, but I have no problem with the awesome chemistry it created within the clubhouse to go with him getting some time off.

QUOTE (G&T @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 03:19 AM) Looks like Ventura likes putting pitchers out there to get ovations. Yep, and he also likes leaving them in for the first batter of an inning in order to play match-ups.

Not terrible abuse there with him getting some time off now.

Hell of an outing by Peavy tonight, as he only allowed 2 hits after the Lind homer. His reaction on the 2-2 ball thrown to that last batter was hilarious.

27k tonight...pretty good considering the awful weather

AJP!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 01:47 AM) Wow was that ball ever kilt All those bad defensive plays, and then that.