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Flowers 3/29 career with the bases loaded. Greg Holland's now on a 38/39 streak save conversion streak if you count the post-season.

It's like Big 10 football and basketball almost....except that style almost never works against the elite speed teams from the Pac 10 and SEC in the post-season. Pretty amazing...maybe the Warriors just got too overconfident when Irving went down.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 08:46 PM) I love seeing Qualls pitch against the Sox with bases loaded. Good memories. I'm sure he has flashbacks every time he faces the White Sox. Actually, from 2012-2014 he was 5 IP, 2 H, no runs...1 BB, 2 K's. Where can you find career stats against a team? Baseball-reference?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 08:46 PM) I love seeing Qualls pitch against the Sox with bases loaded. Good memories. I'm sure he has flashbacks every time he faces the White Sox. Actually, from 2012-2014 he was 5 IP, 2 H, no runs...1 BB, 2 K's. Where can you find career stats against a team? Baseball-reference?

5 doubles now on the season for Cabrera. The Astros' announcers are claiming he's broken out of his slump. We'll see.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 08:32 PM) So, Mike Brown was following police instructions? Eric Garner was following police instructions? They were plainly NOT following police instructions. So from those instances, how is following police instructions more dangerous? Brown at least stopped.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) He could be working on a certain pitch. The one that the announcers were enamored with was the splitter/change that's thrown at 90 MPH. That wiped out Schwarber, even when he was ahead in the count. (Of course, he was expecting 95-98 probably). But nice to see he's confident enough to throw it when down 3-1 in the count to a very dangerous hitter. That takes some stones.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 08:26 PM) Haven't you told us 100 times why no one goes to games? Now you can't complain about them winning 2-0, so mention the attendance. Again. It's not a phenomenon of the White Sox. It's a condition for all rebuilding teams. The Astros and Twins aren't drawing much better, and those teams are both in first place in mid-June. There aren't many fanbases with seven years and counting of non-playoff appearances who are supporting their teams, either.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 08:24 PM) Great pitching doesn't fill seats, need to put runs on the board. Also, how many games have you been to this season? ZERO. Hard to attend from China. When I'm back in the Quad Cities for two weeks in July, I'll see if there's a game I can make it to. When you have a thee month old, it's more of a priority to get back and spend time with your child during summer vacation (for a teacher).

Twins and Royals engaged in some old school pitcher's/defense battles this week. Fast games. Whoever wins tonight has sole possession of first again at 10 games over .500 (and that would be the best record in the AL, amazingly).

How was their batter's interference against Tyler Flowers if he was already at 1B and Bonifacio was hitting?

Only 18,000+? That's not a good crowd for June, even for a Tuesday night. Guess there aren't many closet Astros/Correa and/or top prospect followers in Chicagoland. Petricka coming in next inning. I guess, in all fairness, the Twins and Astros aren't drawing that well and they're both in first place.

Wasn't the barrel roll an accidental trip that he tried to sell?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 07:57 PM) Video and scouting report here. Hands do indeed get out quick. He's a prospect. Every hitter who has half a clue is a prospect in the White Sox organization at this point.

17.2 IP and 26 k's for Putnam. That's crazy. Look for the split finger and still don't hit it.

17.2 IP and 26 k's for Putnam. That's crazy. Look for the split finger and still don't hit it.

Didn't realize Beckham's dad played QB at Univ of South Carolina. And that Gordon was offered a full ride to the Air Force Academy to play that position. Learn something new everyday. KW loves those football/baseball guys.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 07:59 PM) Sly little smile for Rodon The last time the offense bailed me out....glad I'm not Jose Quintana and in actual position to get the victory.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) I think the only thing holding them back at this point is a lack of alternatives. Outside of Kottaras, who is a giant f***ing question mark, there doesn't appear to be another option in the entire system that has a chance of being an upgrade at this point. Right. You simply can't be pretending to contend and break in Kevan Smith at that position. If anything, Nieto would be the better solution due to his experience level from last year.

There's the Jose Abreu we all know and love. That ball carried big-time. Opposite field. Golfed it out, that ball was low and almost scraping the ground. Astros, by the way, have lost 5 consecutive.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 07:38 PM) Meanwhile we are #3 in pitching fWAR since then, with 70 more fWAR than the teams at the bottom and we are #29 out of 30 teams in fielding over that timespan (just had to check). So to summarize, since 2007: white Sox Pitching, near top of the league. Offense, baserunning, and fielding, 29th to 30th in MLB over that timespan. BUT fire Don Cooper, haha. Made all the more remarkable by playing 81 home games at one of the most "offense friendly" stadiums in baseball on an annual basis. It's almost like you would expect those results in Old Comiskey Park...but US Cellular Field, no freakin' way. Talk about anomalies. Of course the irony of those 2000-2006 offenses was the "all or nothing" nature of most of their outputs, but you had so many guys capable of hitting homers, KW felt that was at least more entertaining for the fanbase. Now what are we getting?

This has to be his last batter, right? Correa looking more dangerous in this game....that ball he hit to Beckham was a frozen rope. And Carlos came up with a unique solution to the walk problem, just hit betters when you have 3 balls in the count already.

Typical White Sox game this year. Pitcher battling his butt off. Offense flailing away. Early Bullpen/defense/baserunning/mistakes will probably decide it. What's the winning percentage of MLB teams that leave the bases loaded with no outs at least once in a game? It has to be something like 15-20% Talk about demoralizing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 06:45 PM) Hey at least we got runners on. Inspiring! Now we'll get a fluff/puff piece about Melky Cabrera's bat being just a day or two from coming around.

And nobody in the stadium was even surprised or booing that loudly when the expected happened. Basically, opposing pitchers can relax and let the bottom of the order hitters get themselves out....Flowers must be hitting .050 when he has 2 strikes on him.