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Thanks for nothing, Josh Reddick. Had Fielder down 0-2 and still managed to place a double in the RCF gap. Need to prevent a 4th run from scoring here, might be too much for the OAK offense to overcome. Strange coincidence, Todd Helton backed up Peyton Manning at Tennessee, Eli Manning's backup at Ole Miss was Seth Smith.

Pitching to Cabrera here instead of walking him and facing Fielder with one out. Guess it wouldn't have made any difference...single on a hanging breaking ball to LF. Increasing his BA lead over Trout by the day. Cabrera .395 ba with RISP since AUG 1.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 12:54 PM) Omar Infante-the gift that keeps on giving. He did have a huge hit last night though to give them an early 2-0 lead with Verlander on the bump. That was basically game, scoring 3 runs in that inning.

Tough vote for AL Manager of the Year. One amazing stat is that Baltimore's negative in runs scored/runs against but 20 games over .500. That's extremely hard to pull off.

Tigers 8/20 with RISP this series. Ouch! Laird has really been playing well, after being a horrible hitter last year. It's like he has switched roles with Avila this year. Meanwhile, A's are 4/18. 2-0 DET. Tigers are just almost impossible to beat at home. This is setting up perfectly for the Angels to make one final run to catch the A's from behind.

The bad at the major league level Chris Carter is back again...although his overall numbers still look decent.

Cabrera is hitting .371 with 21 RBI's in 17 SEPT games, before today. Delmon Young doing his best Viciedo impression, pretty similar players at similar ages...although it seems like Young has been around forever. Sanibal, to quote Rod Allen, pitching as well as he has all season for the Tigers/Marlins....Fister 2.0 down the stretch? How much would you give him as a FA contract per year and how many years? Worth it?

Essentially, the White Sox are basically .500 against the Tigers/Royals/Twins. and 13-14 games over .500 against the rest of baseball. Another way of looking at it. The problem is that we're facing a hot and desperate Angels team, on the road, with two of their better pitchers going. Meanwhile, the Tigers face the absymal Royals at home. Best case scenario, we're looking at probably losing another game in the standings there. And we've got the pesky Rays still, with Price still possibly in their rotation down the stretch to clinch the Cy Young. DET has 8 more home games in a row, where they're almost impossible to beat. And they've survived the injury to Max Scherzer and still ended up winning that game

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:44 PM) I really was counting on A's to do some damage. Thankfully Tigers are mediocre on the road. Hopefully KC will be to them what they are to us. The problem is they have a 10 game homestand and we go to LA. At the end of the season, they're not playing good teams on the road, either. I don't trust the Twins, but maybe the Royals can beat them. As far as benching Viciedo goes, what happens when Wise inevitably cools off and Dayan's rusty and cold from not playing enough? Who do we have that can hit then?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:42 PM) Do you trust him to hit Guthrie, Santana, Haren, Weaver, McAllister, Kluber and Masterson? Kluber and McAllister, definitely. Guthrie isn't really overpowering, but his control has been so good, he's been unhittable for the Sox. The problem is how long can Wise continue to sustain this level before getting overexposed and regressing to AAAA/journeyman/waiver wire status?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:39 PM) Alexei and Viciedo just flat out sucked tonight. Manto has some work to do with both guys, as there were obvious mechanical flaws with each tonight. Facing Chen is kind of like going up against a knuckleballer. He will take you completely out of your offensive game if you let him. With Dayan, he's young, although he has seen him multiple times and enjoyed success. With Alexei, veteran players should have learned by now, but he's always been a fastball first hitter and always will be.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:35 PM) De Aza had a nice game offensively. Except for getting thrown out stealing in the 1st when it would have been a huge confidence boost to score an early run and take the lead against Cy Chen.

Maybe Olmedo should start tomorrow if Alexei makes an out here. 1/11 with RISP. Must be the worst in the majors or at least the AL the last 3 weeks or so.

Other than Alex Rios, who showed up to play tonight? And Chris Sale.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:28 PM) Wait what?? I just got back from rugby, did someone suggest we trade ADA or something?? Nope. But if he wants to continue to play LF next year, then we have no CFer. There's no way we put Rios back out there. Unless we make Wise an everyday player, and send Viciedo back to Charlotte. And that will end up with predictable results.

It glanced off his glove right as he was running into the fence. He probably took his eye off it for a split second anticipating contact. By the eyes of many, then Jordan Danks shouldn't ever be a defensive replacement, because he's made two huge errors in LF this season, one in LA, the other a ball he lost that would have been the final out of the game, and we barely survived that one.

It's not going to be an error in KC. We can pick on Viciedo all we want, but in the end, it doesn't matter if you don't score a single run. End of story.

Who plays CF next year? Definitely not Rios. That's going to be an issue, obviously.

Huge out there, no advance of the runner to 3B. 1/10 with RISP for White Sox, Rios single through the infield which didn't score Dunn 0/9 for KC Still being wasted by our offense.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:09 PM) Psychologically traumatized fan base freaking out the next 4 games is what you posted,do you not realize you are describing yourself perfectly? PERSONAL ATTACKS ARE NOT ALLOWED. At least I didn't think they were.

SIGH. O for the game with RISP, except for Rios' single that couldn't score Dunn/Konerko, of course.

That was a pretty gutsy, OR MOSTLY STUPID, baserunning move there by Gordon. Too close to make the 3rd out at third down by one run.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) I see you are still butt hurt over your buddies employment status change. I sent him flowers. Might as well send Braves/Walker Tyler Flowers the way he's going tonight. Ugly night for almost the entire offense in terms of execution and hitting with RISP. Broken record.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 09:01 PM) You should know. How does a comment like this add anything to the conversation???? Just put me on ignore or block, please.

QUOTE (RudyLawRules @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 08:52 PM) Time to sit Tanks azz. Although clueless on the base paths, at least D-Wise will give you more quality ABs. Viciedo is just killing us. That hot May of his seems like eons ago. We've scored ZERO runs against Bruce Chen. Maybe we should also bench the entire starting line-up, minus Rios and a couple of others. Wise isn't a good option against LHP. If it's better to play Wise against Bruce Chen (and all LHPers) than Viciedo, we might as well give up on the 2013 because we're doomed.