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Avila really playing extremely well this week...saved a run. But Ventura's gamble fails...crazy play there, with Frazier playing 1B. CHALLENGE?

Guess he's going to let him face Pillar, lefty vs RHB.

Cooper tossed. Now they FINALLY call a balk after he's been doing the SAME thing all freakin' night long? Really? Why not call it 25 pitches into the game to "warn" him instead of one of the most important points in the game.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 08:07 PM) Id pull rodon now This is where Ventura gets a pass. If it's not Albers, who should he go to here? Jennings? No easy choices. Ynoa? Tulo up, 8 strikeouts for Rodon. Man, Russell Martin might finally be toast. Really fell off a cliff. Balk on Rodon. Our good friend Angel Hernandez. Cooper's pissed.

Does Albers have a chance in this game tonight? Odds aren't that good.

White Sox at .127 BA with RISP the last 8 games. Brutal. Only way to score is solo homers, walks, wild pitches or errors.

Cabrera putting on a show offensively this week. 8 homers on the year. But can the bullpen actually hold a lead for 3 innings?

White Sox 0 for 7 with RISP. Blue Jays just 1 for 5 (Pillar).

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:52 PM) Some broadcast this is Why? What happened? Benetti is trying to be too entertaining again with the lack of action?

Yeah, 93 for a slider is Francisco Liriano 2006 stuff. He threw his slider that year at 89-91 very consistently that year. Until the torque destroyed his elbow.

89 pitches by Rodon so far...Donaldson with a very professional at-bat. Rodon looking as good as he has all season. Unfortunately, the offense is completely stifled by Sanchez. And Carlos only has one inning left for the Sox offense to score before his pitch count dictates that Ventura pulls him.

The strategy of every opposing team against our top 3 pitchers is going to be to take pitches, foul them off...work long into counts and try to get Sale/Q/Rodon out of the game after the 5th or 6th, giving them 3-4 opportunities against the suddenly depleted and completely vulnerable Sox bullpen.

White Sox fans going with the "USA! USA! USA!" response to Blue Jays' fans cheering their team... Lake swung at ball 4 there. Typical AAAA player. That's an at bat that separates the quality of major league players from pretenders.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:20 PM) Find it interesting for all our complaining of Avi.. he is hitting .362 with RISP. Never would have thought that. That doesn't make up for a mid 600's OPS out of a DH. Not even close. And that's not even sustainable, we know it will average out, just like his BABIP in the first two months last year evened out. Blue Jays' radio guys can't understand why Shuck is in the big leagues...lol. And Avi Garcia, here we go again.

I guess that fan on the field's the most excitement this stadium has seen tonight....fans seemed to enjoy it.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:17 PM) With Putnam probably headed to surgery and our 4th and 5th of'era batting about zero for everything you can see the need for some additional moves At the minimum: They need to replace Avi's bat and get another veteran RH reliever. That's at a bare minimum, and assuming Jackson is able to hit the ground running coming off surgery. Do you, in your heart of hearts, think it's wise to commit another $10-15 million into this year's team? Not to mention the talent we would have to surrender, unless we're just doing a salary dump rescue/takeover.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:10 PM) After they listened to you and did that, after one start you would be wondering why they were so dumb to think Ranaudo is a viable starting pitcher in the AL. No, they'd be thanking me for saving them a $27 million mistake commitment that only made sense in the context of competing THIS season. For the next two years, we're on the hook for an average of $11 million per season (including the buyout). Is Ranaudo going to deliver a similar performance for essentially free compared to Shields...? Probably.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:07 PM) Why would anyone trade for him right now Because the Rangers are down three starters now and he could relax pitching behind that offense. He would give up a ton of homers in Arlington, but they just need him to eat innings and keep the team in the game. I'm 100% sure that, for no explicable reason, he'd go down there and be perfectly fine and look like he has for the last season and 2 months in SD. Just because...

The Rangers desperately need another starter with Colby Lewis going down for a month with an oblique strain. We could probably give them James Shields for free. Or extra something useful for Gonzalez. That would allow us to run Ranaudo out there.

The irony is that you can't really fire Steverson now because it seems completely pointless with everything that has transpired over the last 6 weeks. It's like firing Captain John Smith of the Titanic as the first smokestack is disappearing under the icy waters...nobody will take it seriously as a solution.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 06:54 PM) Offensive woes carrying over from yesterday SEPT. 15, 2012 Minus Abreu the first 2-3 months of 2014.

Does anyone REALLY expect Avi to get a hit against a RHP with Sanchez's stuff?

Shuck always good for something bad at the plate this year. Last year, he was surprisingly effective as a PH/defensive replacement/spot starter/PR. But exposed with regular playing time. And Avi Garcia with an opportunity to add more nails to his coffin?

Royals being murdered by the Astros, 9-0 (Volquez vs. Keuchel) and only in the 1st inning. If the Jays and Twins don't end this, the Astros likely will next weekend. With the Indians' best (Salazar) destroying the Tigers' best (Zimmermann) with a 7-0 lead, the Indians being by far the best team in the division is no longer in doubt.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 06:28 PM) Sounds like Putnam's injury is long-term. There is just no way in hell this team is going to be able to hang around until mid-late July. Albers is nearly done. Petricka and Webb out. If Putnam's gone, there's no way for Ventura to hold that bullpen together with duct tape and baling wire. Plus, the Blue Jays are out to sweep the Sox, returning the favor for our sweep of them in TOR to climb to 16-6 at the end of April.