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Bad luck there?

Plus, MOST of our baserunners can run at will against Garcia when they reach.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 06:52 PM) We are witnessing the collapse of the 2012 Whitesox. It started friday night. Some things you just cant shake off. Getting swept by the terrible Royals is one of those things. Having a pitcher like Gavin Floyd is another. If it was going to happen, it would have been after losing to the Red Sox in heartbreaking fashion and then getting swept at DET. They'll be fine...they might not make the playoffs, but the season isn't collapsing yet. We will still have a one game lead going into tmrw, no matter what happens. And we've scored plenty of runs against Freddy Garcia since he left the Sox. It's whether Floyd can hold the Yankees down for the next 3-4 innings to let the offense get us back into this one. DET blew a 5-0 lead in the first inning the other night...playing at home, the Sox tend to score in bunches.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) In that age 26 season in 2010, Alex Gordon played 75 games in the minor leagues. The Sox have yet to try that with Beckham. Angel Berroa might be a better comparison.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 06:52 PM) Of course Tampa will, I mean they are 0-3 on the season against KC already. Except with the way the Rays seemingly play every pennant drive (and have been playing recently), it would be pretty shocking if the Rays didn't at least take 2/3 in Tampa, or 3/4.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 04:23 PM) A's going to win so Sox lost 3 games this weekend in the WC standings to Tampa and Oakland. Anaheim has 6 more games vs Tigers, so we need them to start playing better. And you know the Rays will sweep KC at home to go 16 games over .500. We would be 1/2 game behind the O's, tied with the A's.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:56 PM) He should. It was horrible. People saying they aren't that mad about this sweep, make zero sense. Ummm...what exactly would getting mad accomplish? Help the team get up for the Yankees? It's on the players and coaching staff...and you can't blame our fans all season long for not knowing what to make of this team. It's a head scratcher.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:55 PM) Great to hear Hawk blasting the decision making this road trip. Rios 0-4 in all three games. Assume you mean since arriving in KC. Well...for whatever reason, we were flat the entire series. Weird the Sox have become one of those teams that has to be pushed to rise to the occasion against the better teams in the league, although we seemed to do just fine with the Twins and Blue Jays for most of this year...at least until this point. Just a weird, weird season. We could easily be 14-16-18 games over .500 and running away with the division, but that would go against the laws of baseball sanity apparently.

This feels NOTHING like that Tigers' sweep at Detroit following the devastating (at the time) loss to the Red Sox...the now infamous Cody Ross game. We went from 3 1/2 games up to 1 1/2 games behind that week and it seemed bleak. Totally standard, predictable Royals crap. Nothing new or unexpected here, except the sweep rather than 2/3.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) For the out of town Sox fan, I bet Hawk is a peach to listen to right now. Probably just quiet and amazed the Sox are still in first. That might change with the collapsing Blue Jays heading for Motown.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:47 PM) Completely unreliable...still time for KW to get another righty reliever on the waiver wire. You simply cannot have a righty you use in games that matter with such an awful WHIP the last 3 months. .349 BAA against RHers this season is almost, hate to say it, unFATHOMable. How can you have that kind of stuff and suck so hard? Santiago, conversely, has been better against righties...so has Quintana, for the most most part.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:44 PM) And not a hint of criticism from Hawk towards Pierzynski. Seems Konerko should have had it, or at least stopped it from getting by him. Sox defense has abandoned the team over the last month. By the way ROBIN, Nathan Jones is giving up a .349 BAA vs. right-handers. Against LHB'ers, .197. And yet Ventura always seems to use Nathan as if he's a typical RHP. Crain screwed up this inning by letting the leadoff hitter on, and of course we have no prayer of throwing out anyone at 2B, let alone Dyson...even on perfect pitches on which to throw.

What the hell is going on with this team? Not playing like a playoff team this series....sleepwalking for the past two games.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 01:43 PM) The walk to Escobar when he was going to bunt is just inexcusable. It screwed us this inning. If he wants to give you the out, take it. Yes, because a rookie pitcher who's never pitched this many innings in his life, who was in A Ball in St. Pete last year at this time, with an ERA around 2.6-2.7 at this point of the season who has a NO-HITTER being thrown again...yeah, it's all his fault. Blame Sale and Peavy for sucking when those guys needed to beat the Royals on Friday and Saturday if they're our stoppers or aces supposedly.

There's some good luck, FOR NOW. Butler should have scored there.

PERFECT. Only happens in KC and Texas, that kind of bounce.

NO HANGING BREAKING BALLS OVER THE MIDDLE AGAINST PEREZ. BUST HIM INSIDE WITH CUTTERS AND FASTBALLS.

And AJ's biggest fault, blocking pitches...comes back to bite us for the 32nd time this season.

Fielder GIDP after Cabrera K. Well, hopefully Jose can replicate that but he can't survive giving up leadoff hits/walks forever.

Of course, Austin Jackson reaches. Not going to be easy for the O's to close this one out in DET. And, of course, Infante reaches too, setting the stage for the Cabrera/Fielder Show. Error by rookie 2B Quintanilla.

Why don't we all just go down to Jonestown and start drinking Royals' blue kool-aid, lol? This game thread is a TAD BIT ridiculous for a first place team that NOBODY expected to be there on August 19th, 2012. NOBODY.

Jackson/Infante/Cabrera/Fielder. Huge inning for the Orioles bullpen.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) It matters because we are playing a s*** team who we should be owning, while the Tigers are playing a good team. We should be building up out lead, and we aren't. That s*** is gonna come back to haunt us. Just like it did in the past with the Twins. You mean like when the Twins lost 2/3 to the Royals the last week of 2008? Yeah, that was nice. Sometimes you win the division, sometimes other teams give it to you, and usually it's a combination of both.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) Different situation, they are playing a good ballclub. Just face it, the Sox are playing like s*** and these games will come back to haunt them. Gee, you don't think the Tigers will feel this way after blowing a 5-0 lead in the first inning? If you want to talk about games that got away, the Peavy 6-0 lead against DET at home is one to get upset about....or Sale against Kershaw in LA. We can find 30-40 games in the season (AT LEAST) every team's fans feel they SHOULD have won if they were the manager.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 01:20 PM) I guarantee the Tigers feast on these bums. Thats the difference, and they have a ton of games left with them. Why are the Tigers in danger of being 2 1/2 games out of first place after today then?