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Indians lost, at least. Probably a wise move not to throw him a first-pitch FB there.

LOL. Albers Time. What can happen next?

Eibner might have swung at ball 4 but too close to take. Guess it was hailing yesterday at the ballpark...1 " size. That's not going to make Ventura very happy.

Given a 1-0 lead, Johnson allowed consecutive solo homers to Tadahito Iguchi, Aaron Rowand and Paul Konerko with one out in the fourth and, after singles by Jermaine Dye and Juan Uribe, a three-run shot to Chris Widger. FOUR HOMERS in the inning, but Widger's wasn't consecutive.

Jennings has taken Duke's job, apparently. Interesting.

Well, Gonzalez is guaranteed a quality start at least. Tipped his cap to the home plate umpire, lol.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=250821104 August, 2005. Three homers in a row off UNIT.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 27, 2016 -> 08:11 PM) Sox in 4 straight Homer's the one time. Want to say 2008. Widger definitely wasn't on the 2008 team.

Yeah, no reason at all to risk Garcia playing a ball into a big inning at this point. "Nope, you only do that if the game is tied or the Sox are leading by 1 or 2. 3 runs is a big lead, don't need a defensive replacement."

QUOTE (CWSpalehoseCWS @ May 27, 2016 -> 08:08 PM) Something like that. I wanna say Dye for sure. I can't even remember what year that was though, haha. Must have been 2004-2005. Perhaps first 3-4 months of 2006.

Showalter being Showalter. Worked perfectly. DP from Gimenez. 6-4 O's.

Why are you intentionally walking Lonnie Chisenhall? Hope to hell Showalter knows what he's doing...putting the go-ahead run on base there with only one out. Obviously going for DP ball.

Lindor homered off Darren O'Day. That kid can play. 6-4 Indians, runner on 1st in the bottom of the 8th with no outs. Uh-oh. Runners on 2nd and 3rd, no outs. Jose Ramirez strikes again with a double. Uribe up.

Yost warmed up Hochevar assuming they'd have the lead. Moylan in for mop up innings now. Good, that means they won't be able to use Hochevar on Sunday if they use him Saturday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0527-story.html Sox moved Sale back to Sunday. That makes more sense than worrying about Brian Harvey in NYC on Memorial Day. So Rodon/Ventura, then Sale/Volquez to finish the weekend.

RALLY FINGER has to stay after this game. Like the Rally Crede/Angels' Monkey.

Miguel Gonzalez now goes to 5th starter of the year, lol. Lip won't be able to say that spot hasn't won a game yet this year if this holds up. Although we won two of Gonzalez's previous starts, for the record. 15 homers for Frazier, wow!!! Back to back. Can it be back to back to back? NOPE. Yost pulls him. Well, theoretically it could, but against Hochevar instead.

Hahaha. Didn't expect that. Goes from a perfect game to 4-1 down in the span of 5 minutes. Hanging breaking ball there. How many homers last year did Melky hit RH against a LHP? Let's hope that's the bookend of this streak. The Frazier GS Monday night in extras, the Melky GS to turn around this 4-11 stretch (hopefully).

Garcia would have been out had Perez noticed....did he get hurt diving back into 3rd?

Fathom predicted the opposite field shot, but not enough elevation. Sure made sense to have Avi at the bottom of the line-up and Sands 5th against a LHP, though. MLB AT-BAT still has "PERFECT GAME" in red. White Sox trying to emulate the Royals' dink/dunk/doink offensive approach.

What happened to Rollins running down the line there...? Cuthbert has a nice arm. Nicaraguan. Last Central American we had was El Caballo.

Orioles now up by 3. Two run homer by Trumbo. At least we have 1st place for another day. So there's that.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ May 27, 2016 -> 07:21 PM) I honestly hope Cespedes goes on a tear next week. Can't wait for deGrom on Wednesday. Harvey, he's been vulnerable, obviously. Orioles just took the lead back. 4-3 with one out in the Top of the 7th.

Dyson is now 8/10 career-wise against Gonzalez. That's crazy, for someone who's not even close to a 700 OPS player career-wise.

That's because the Red Sox actually invest a ton of money into scouting, both the US and internationally. It would be instructive to know if we would have taken him over Fulmer had he slipped past BOS. Probably not. Were there any rumors of Sox interest? Anderson 0/4 with a K. Knew it wouldn't last forever...