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Of course, the defensive replacement misses the ball by 2 feet when Danks loses the ball in the lights.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 05:33 PM) Would love an insurance run here. I'm hoping we don't see Reed. It looked like he didn't have good velocity last night (sat at 93-94). Surely you jest with this part of the line-up and none of them being fastball hitters. Good ab by Tylers. Walks 9 and 10 on the season in a single game.

FINALLY, Thornton, after 6 seasons, starting to get some huge outs with that hook.

Another out here would be huge and stave off the momentum for KC. 5-3 game and doubts start to creep in about Reed entering.

If Juan Pierre was playing LF, it would be 5-3, no outs and Escobar on 2nd.

Thornton.

Holy hell... Thank god he was out at home. That might save the game. Viciedo with another good play in combination with Ramirez. Could easily have been a 5-4 game and goodbye to the game in all likelihood. Seems 90% of the time after you blow the bases loaded situation the other team fights back in the following inning.

That breaks the string of 13 batters in a row retired. Sunshine gone, 3-1 count. Bad combination. SIGH. Top of the Royals' line-up now. Should have put the game away last inning and now it probably gets interesting again somehow. Crap. This is NOT GOOD. And there's no savior down in that bullpen. Just get the DP here, PLEASE.

14/74 with RISP. (.189) Breathed some life back into the Royals if they can score here in the 8th. Then there's always the scary possibility of Addison Reed entering the game looming...

Dadgummit, bases loaded situations killing the White Sox the last two weeks. Way too many pop-ups.

Beckham indecisive there....caught in no man's land. Should probably have scored there, bases loaded for Paulie. Another RBI, even a sacrifice fly, would be big here for Paulie's confidence. Should be a good match-up against a primarily FB pitcher.

Could easily have run themselves into a triple play there had the runners been on the move again.

Mazzaro throwing pretty much all fastballs with no idea where they're going. Thus, the 6+ ERA.

Tonight sets up as a HUGE game in that Angels/Tigers series. CJ Wilson vs. Verlander, and then Greinke Sunday, who has been about as hot as any pitcher in baseball the last 4 or so starts. Angels win tonight, the sweep definitely happens with how the Angels have been playing the last 10+ days. Flowers now with 9 walks, 49 K's.

Well, that's ONE way to solve the hitting with RISP issues. Just hit homers at USCF. AJ just missed a double there...close to a homer.

Konerko is alive, 22 homers, ties Alexei with 66 RBI's. Yet another homer surrendered by Chen, that's around 30 now on the season.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:45 PM) Good quick 6th for Sale. 101 pitches through 6. Retired his last 10. Personally I'd pull him now because of who we face next time out, but Robin probably has him start the 7th. Struggling Francouer, Lefty Moustakas, Switch Pena Ventura will DEFINITELY be tempted, since he's put down 10 in a row.

Sale will end the game (theoretically) with 6 K's, 101 pitches. Ending on a string retiring 10 batters in a row. Should be 9-2, ERA of around 1.70 at home this season. Crain was warming up in the bullpen.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:32 PM) T-Flow 2012 Except Lilly really faded in the 2nd half of the season, and Tyler's been a breath of fresh air defensively as well as the fact that HOPEFULLY we'll be in the playoffs at the end of this year, whereas last year in many respects was even worse than 2007 for Sox fans.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:29 PM) Yeah I got a new found respect for Hawk again after listening to this and the Fox broadcast when we played the Tigers earlier as well... That Saturday game the prior time we were getting swept by Detroit...the Verlander/Sale match-up, that SUCKED. The White Sox might as well not have existed. Already they were predicting the Tigers would run away with the division, as that was the time they passed us to get up 1/2 game and would go on to win Sunday to go up 1 1/2. Short-lived, both times.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:28 PM) T-Flow > Javy Vasquez T-Flow/Youk/Santos Rodriguez > Javy/Lillibridge Haha.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:26 PM) For anyone who thinks Hawk sucks as an announcer, go back and listen to the Fox call of that last diving play by Moustakous. It was a great play, it sounded like he was calling a routine play at best. The Royals' radio team went crazy on that play.

Flowers continuing to put on a full-court press for starting catcher job in 2013. For some odd reason, the Royals' announcers said a majority of the people they're talking to around the Sox are predicting AJ won't be here next year. Take it FWIW. Tyler all the way up to a .748 OPS. Didn't dream it was possible after watching him in sporadic playing time the first 3-4 months.

Sox dugout getting all over the home plate umpire (Carlson?) again after that K call against Rios. Parent already ejected for arguing in the 3rd.

1st 1-2-3 inning for Sale so far. Picked up 2 K's, 4 on the game. 79 pitches through the 4th.