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Putz in to close it out. Lead off hit by Rayburn. Twins already won.

SEXI !! 8-4.

Inge homers. 7-4.

Jones replaces Teahen in right. Thornton in.

PK walked Teahen 1st pitch hitting grounds out to 1st.

Neither Vizquel or Rios can get Pierre home. It's up to PK to get a 2 out knock.

Boesch loses Pierre shot in the light. Pierre ends up and 3rd. Scored a triple.

Beckham just misses another oppo HR . Off the top of the wall for a triple .

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2010 -> 08:15 PM) Leaving Santos in the game is absolutely inexcusable. Santos K's Damon for 2nd out on a very nice change up and now Peralta grounds into a force out. Leaving Santos in paid off.

Tying run at the plate with 1 out for Tigers after Santos walks Jackson. 1 hr. 23 minute rain delay . Very odd Santos would still be pitching.

It's back and Santos is still out there.

Woo hoo Teahen belts one way out !

Miggy 0-17 lifetime against MB.

Beckham at .250 now.

Wooo hoo !

Nice inning Mark.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 01:03 PM) Thanks chw, and thanks to anyone else who read it. I'm sure I'll end up writing plenty about the Sox on here, seeing as they're the team I follow the closest. Good job Matt. I am pretty old school on stats because well I'm old and advanced metrics are useful. I guess I'll really have to bone up on them but they will never role off my tongue the way ERA, RBI an batting average do. I think the thing that bothers me most about sabermetrics is the constant use the the word "luck" in batting and pitching advanced stats. I know with pitching you can also do line drive rates. Maybe in Gavin's case hitters were just hitting the ball harder leading to worse numbers because of location or hangers or whatever. I guess you can tell me if that is true or not. Or maybe you already told me but because those stats are pretty unfamiliar to me I just didn't catch it. Is it really too simplistic to think when a pitcher makes quality pitches he's more likely to pitch better and have better "luck" ?

I think he will DH and play the field. There's really no excuse not to have him in there against RH's. Against righties we'll see both Teahen and Kotsay in there more often than not.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 06:04 PM) What happened w/ Viciedo? Flipped channels and missed some (all the?) offense 3 pitches one K . Jones foul popout. Lillibridge bunt pop out.

Matusz was cruising but Showalter says that's enough and made the right decision.

QUOTE (johnnymick @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 05:56 PM) Shoulda tried to go home first, I guess you gotta get the guaranteed out though No you definitely go home on that and try to get the home to 1st DP. Neither runner was particularly fast.

Paulie what the heck ?

Well you try to hit it to the right side and get a hit but if you don't get a hit at least you moved the runner over. That's why when you see it happen the guys in the dugout give out 5 highs as if he had gotten an RBI.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 05:46 PM) Why were Hawk and Stone praisin Rios' "sacrifice" there? It's terrible to give up an out there. Because he moved the runner to 3rd base like he is supposed to with 0 outs.

Perplexed why AJ is even in that spot in the order or even the game.