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Richards relieves Walden and gets both Jackson and Infante. Top of the 8th, 3-2 Angels.

Two one-run games now. Detroit down by 1. Gordon Beckham's doing about as well as Gordon Gekko post 1987 tonight.

Nathan Jones warming. Have to use him at some point.

Strange to see a guy so big throwing any pitches in the upper 60's/low 70's. Reminiscent of Eric Hillman or Jeff D'Amico.

Rays, surprisingly, lost 2/3 at home to the A's. TB at 13 over now, Oakland at 12. Balt/TOR tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the 5th.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 25, 2012 -> 07:30 PM) I fully expect a position player to pitch at some point. Who is the back-up catcher with Escobar out? Olmedo or Viciedo? One would guess it would be Rey.

10 straight batters retired. 87 pitches. Seems like he'll get through the 5th and that will be it. Hopefully the Sox can get him off the hook for the loss....

80 pitches for 9 outs tonight. "He's far from being a friendly batter." Clever one there, Farmio. Casper The Friendly Ghost. Momentum back to the side of the Sox again. Back and forth, but nothing can top last night's 9th inning swings. Sure thought Dunn's ball was gone, though.

Konerko hitting the ball to RF with authority again. YOUK found an extra gear there at the end, but great throw from Casper Wells in deep right. If the Sox win tonight, every first place team in baseball would have at least 70 wins. Definitely game on...despite the DP ball there by Flowers. Would be pretty surprising if the White Sox didn't pull this one out now after the Ventura and AJ ejections.

Caught it off the end of the bat. Figgins almost misplayed that into a double or triple. Harrelson was probably screaming STRETCH 10 times there...even Farmer and DJ got excited on that potential homer.

Maybe Cooper will get to resume his managerial career if Ventura gets a suspension. But surely, it will be Parent. They should let AJ manage, haha. It would be a LOT more interesting for the fans.

Quintana did get squeezed there in the first and this inning (granted, he's a rookie and his control was shaky but he wasn't getting anything). Those strike calls against Dunn were ridiculous. Ventura about as mad as he's ever been as Sox manager about the umpiring. What's Harrelson saying? May have been a carryover to not getting the call there from Humber against Smoak last night.

Vernon Wells strikes for the first run in DET, another homer, 1-0 Angels.

Finally. 42 pitches. Still a game...for now. Audition time to replace Floyd/Quintana in the rotation for Humber and Hector. Floyd better not lay another egg tomorrow.

Guess Ventura is going to go with Humber over Santiago. Four walks now. Game in danger of getting out of hand here. Only pitch he can get over is the fastball.

35 pitches and climbing, still not out of the 1st.

Finally reached the 3.00 ERA mark just now. Pretty amazing he held it down in the 2's for almost his entire rookie season. Now the big question is will he go Humber 2012...what will KW have in Quintana next year?

Farmer and DJ throwing out the innings pitched rationale for his poor performance tonight. Seems to be feeling the pennant race now, and struggling with his command, which has been his calling card for most of the season, pounding the strike zone and getting ahead of hitters. Almost 30 pitches, numerous 3-2 counts...doesn't have the type of stuff to get K's like Liriano does. In a way, that's been Danks' problem as well since 2008.

That's one reason Liriano would start over Quintana in the playoffs. You can't have the first baserunner reach like that, just forgot about his responsibility there.

I doubt Cooper, Ventura and KW would go with Quintana over Liriano, however. Liriano has only been bad once in 5 starts. The team is 4-1 when he goes to the bump. There's also the added factor of the innings pitched issue with Quintana...why push him harder than he's ever been pushed in his entire professional baseball career when you have Liriano with playoff experience? Liriano and Sale can get K's when they need them. That's very important in close playoff games with runners in scoring position and less than 2 outs.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 11:48 PM) Interesting that the Sox moved Sanchez to SS and Kevin Towers said that they will likely replace Drew via the trade market. Given the right circumstances there's no doubt that I think the Sox would offload Ramirez' contract on someone. Sigh.

That and the fact that Veal's not used to facing too many RH hitters.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 09:51 PM) Wise was on second base. Yeah, I know. He tags up and scores all the way from 2nd because both outfielders were down and Ackley was nowhere close to being able to retrieve the ball, turn around and throw it with all of his momentum going away from the play. It would have been a relay throw. No way he makes a throw to the plate from deep RCF in that situation.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 09:48 PM) DJ supposedly thought that Wedge was arguing that PK passed Youk on the bases. However, according to this article I found, Wise would still be allowed to score even if that happened as PK would be called out for out #2. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/da.../1#.UDhKydZlSOg But then that would make the argument it was actually a catch relevant again, because the out on the basepaths and the catch being the 2nd/3rd out. Didn't even pay attention to what was going on with anyone besides Wise at 2nd, though. Very smart observation by Wedge there...he never has been in that "intellectual" category of managers like Scioscia, LaRussa, Maddon, etc.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 09:46 PM) Ugh the White Sox fandom collective butthurt over Keith Law is getting old and really embarrassing. I for one am shocked that a man, who's job it is to offer opinions on projecting players is wrong every once in a while. Seriously sox fans, if you want to drink the farm system kool aid, there are places for that. Don't get upset when the adults tell you things you don't want to hear. So is the vendetta by Law against a single franchise (see Joe Cowley versus Toronto/Canada) simply because of bitterness about the Mike Sirotka deal and hate/dislike for KW. Both are probably equally bad. But he's paid to give a professional opinion...and his opinion is obviously colored and biased. Sox message boards are ruled by emotion/s and sometimes reason, but you can't compare the two forms of media.