fathom

When's the last time we got a hit?

Well, this would be a new way to lose

Mark looks just about done out there. Tons of pitches up in the zone.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 03:16 AM) Greg Walker's name surprisingly absent from all discussion of the Sox's offensive woes. Just give up? Everyone just assumes this organization doesn't have the balls to fire anyone during the year. When Ozzie goes, Walker goes.

Nice meatball served up by Buehrle. You're not going to win games if your offense only puts up 2 runs at Coors.

You could see Alex think about not hustling for a split second there. He's pulling off every pitch right now.

Isn't it 2-1?

Jeez, he juiced that

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 03:00 AM) Again the average 3b in MLB right now has a .680 ops. And Morel's at .560 and showing no signs of driving the ball

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:33 AM) You'd rather have the guy hitting .220 with 6 hr as our version of the league average? Yes, in our offense, I'd rather have the guy who can hit the ball out of the park. It's also probably 99% likely that .220 hitter has more walks than Morel does.

I've said this before, but there's no reason to bat Morel if we're not going to hit and run with him every time Pierre gets on base.

Wait, what happened with Buehrle? I thought he had a double. Also, I missed the Beckham outs tonight. Anything hit good?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 02:42 AM) You guys know over the last 9 games or so Rios has been hitting really well, I think his average is over 300 (atleast thats what the stat said earlier in the game) I missed the games last week, but was he actually hitting the ball hard? I saw the two homers in Arizona though.

Very nice catch there by Rios to hopefully prevent big inning. Way to shut us up...for a few seconds

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:36 AM) I wish he would retire, or at least officially announce his retirement. It still is amazing that we have so many more years/millions to pay a guy that seems to be going through the motions more than anyone we've had here in the Ozzie regime. For as much as people complained about Carlos Lee, he hustled a hell of a lot more than Rios.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 02:27 AM) i did too, but i looked at his baseball reference page, and it wasnt nearly as bad as i thought it would be. aside from his last season numbers, he was a effective 5th starter. Hasn't Marquis been better?

Awful, his swing looks like it has about 4 different parts to it.

There's a break. Time for Rios to break it open with a single up the middle

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:31 AM) Konerko has to go the All-Star game. Period. He's having just an amazing year. Such a pleasure to watch him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 09:47 PM) This is a guy who hit .305 in the minor leagues overall and .322 last year between Birmingham and Charlotte. He's on pace to strike out about 60 times in a 500 at bat season if he got that. If he put up a BABIP of .310 and never homered, he'd hit .276. At this point though, one home run and two walks is unacceptable from your third baseman, end of story as far as I'm concerned.

The least Morel could do is get Pierre into second.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:22 AM) Ramirez or Rios? I'm guessing you mean Rios in CF (not the one with the Russian name). No, Ramirez also

Great job Mark!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:19 AM) Wasn't someone telling us Rios has only two errors to defend his defense last night? If there is no error charged there then he gave up 3 free bases with no error. Hell, Alexei should have about 3-5 more errors this season if not for favorable official scoring.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:17 AM) Wow horrible horrible work by Rios. That was a catchable ball. But he only has two errors! Ugh, he's been mediocre out there. Never thought Quentin would be our best defensive outfielder of the three starters, but good for Carlos.