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QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 12:42 PM) Who's our righty set-up man tonight? With Hermanson likely unavailable, will Ozzie save Politte for the 9th? I think we'll see Cotts in the 7th, and then have Cliff/Marte hopefully finish off the 8/9th. With a 4 run lead, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of both Viz and/or Jenks. Why is Hermanson unavailable? What'd I miss? He didn't pitch yesterday. Family stuff?

6 innings of shutout ball for Big Jon...quality start, 0 runs, hard to ask for more from a guy. Let's finish this off and get him #14...and win #30 against the central.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 12:32 PM) Another potential 3rd strike not called. That pitch was a strike earlier this inning, let alone this game. 102 pitches for Jon...probably his last inning here...Neal's standing it up.

Gas He Gawn

"I don't know what the people are doing at the game in Cleveland in white sox shirts, because they don't go to the games in Chicago" - Cleveland announcers. Bastards.

8 for 15 this series for ARow, he's got that swing working again. Just watch, 2 weeks from now he'll be back where he was last year in Average, and he'll have another 3 or 4 home runs.

We've secretly replaced all the Cleveland hitters with Willie Harris. Leadoff double, and the guy never moves beyond 2nd base.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) Garland continues to play with fire. He's allowed more 2 strike hits today than he has in a long time. It's hard to expect a shutout from a guy every single game. Decent hitters will usually be able to grab a run or two against almost everyone just off of luck.

Hard to ask for more from Paulie...the ball just didn't carry...he nailed it on 2 strikes and drove it to the wall. Could use a little better performance from Frank, but happily other guys are picking him up right now.

That is 10 stolen Bases for the Sox this series. 48 for Podsie. And I think we've only been thrown out 1 time all series, and that was on a BS call at 3rd for Ozuna.

Pods is up to .299.

PODS!!!!! The Bunt! Man I love this kind of Baseball. See you on 2nd Scottie.

So that's what a 14 game winner looks like. Wonderful job Jon. WOW.

GAS He Gawn!

Hmmm, Random fireworks. Either that or Cleveland is at war.

It's now 2-1 Angels over Minnesota in the top of the 3rd

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 11:43 AM) AJP is taking some of his best swings of the season now. He got robbed of a double there on a nice play by Broussard. AJP has been getting robbed all year long...he has been hitting ropes that just have been caught in amazing plays. I've been blown away by how unlucky he's been with the bat.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) Anyone else feel like the Indians hitters aren't cashing in on a lot of very hittable pitches? VMart had some great pitches to hit that AB, but fouled them off. Good pitching does that. Even if a pitch is "Hittable", say up and outside, if you're looking down and in there's not much you can do about it.

QUOTE(Southside hitmen @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 11:35 AM) I saw it on the board but havent heard any reports about it Buster Olney was tossing that out as an option last night, that the Marlins wanted to move Lowell with Burnett to save on salary and get a few players...He repeated it a bunch on ESPN yesterday and said that Baltimore or the White Sox were probably at the top of the list. I bet Gammons was just spinning off of that. Here's a random thought...does anyone think KW might be pushing himself into every trade rumor/talk just to try to push the price up for other teams that are bidding for guys?

Nice work Jon...getting ground ball to get out of a mini-jam after a long at bat by Martinez.

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ Jul 17, 2005 -> 11:30 AM) This is one of the more inconsistant strike zones I've seen in a while. Yeah, those pitches at the knees early in the game would have been strikes in 95% of the games I've watched.

Aaron and Paulie are ripping the ball right now...Aaron's getting good swings again and not swinging over the top of stuff, and Paulie's dropped his hands a little more and shortened up his swing & its helping him drive the ball Podsednik is back up to .297...couple more hits and he'll cross that magical .300 line. Dye and Thomas a bit cold right now, but ARow and Konerko are picking them up. I love watching this team click.

52 pitches through 3 for Elarton.

Mercy...I just signed on entirely to say "Man, Tadahito Murdered that ball".

2 Side notes...ARow has 8 hits in his last 4 games, and Paulie's still putting up good numbers in July. Has anyone looked at the way Konerko is standing? It looks to me like he's lowered his hands a lot compared to earlier in the season.