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QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 12:17 PM) I'm not a big Jesse Crain fan. Is there any reason I should be? Fail tonight. Because he's consistently been a 2-3 ERA reliever with the White Sox for 1 1/2 seasons. Last time I checked, there's no such thing as a perfect reliever. But yeah, this really hurts. We badly needed this win tonight to stop the bleeding, and we knocked out Kershaw, had the best pitcher in the AL on the mound with a 5-1 lead and couldn't hold it.

Implosion by Crain.

Well, that sucks.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 12:11 PM) Is anybody a little worried for Humber's start tomorrow? Ummm...let's just get this one first. Have given up expecting anything resembling a quality start from Humber in this stretch.

How did Beckham make that play? Two amazing plays from him tonight so far.

Should Hudson have stopped that ball? DeJesus Jr. to pinch hit next.

Uh-oh, game back on.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 11:34 AM) Why can't we do this to Westbrook? Same reason we always seem to do better against pitchers like Felix Hernandez. Maybe it's because we concentrate or focus more against really good opposing pitchers...other than Sabathia and Johan Santana, there haven't been too many elite starting pitchers who have consistently owned us. Verlander's been better the last 2-3 seasons, but we've done about as well against him as any team has in the AL.

Rios quietly earning his money this year. The best thing you can say about him is that his name's rarely come up in any negative conversations at all...maybe that he's been TOO emotional, haha. Kershaw is suffering from plantar fasciitis in his left (push-off) foot. Has really struggled in his last 4-5 starts, at least compared to his standard established in 2011. Claims it's not bothering him, but the results on the field would suggest otherwise.

If Marin can keep up those K numbers, he might get to Birmingham this year. That said, his H/9 and BAA is way up compared to the Sally League.

80 k's for Sale on the season already in 78.6. Still averaging more than 1 K per inning pitched. Trivia question: Dodgers' all-time leader in homers?, the name won't come to mind right away.

8/13 now for Dunn against Kershaw career-wise. Why, did Dunn misplay a ball in that inning they scored the run? The Elian double? Always makes me think of that famous Florida case with Cuban kid...what was his name, Gonzalez or Rodriguez? 43 of Sale's 76 K's coming into tonight are on the slider. Continues to have the lowest ERA and BAA.

Interesting factoids. Chris Sale 7-0 when the White Sox score 3 or more runs for him. If he wins tonight, it would be 7 of 9 victories following a White Sox loss, and therefore stopping a (loss or) losing streak. Chris Sale had the highest K/9 ratio of any lefthander in baseball last year, Kershaw was 2nd. White Sox 24-9 on the road in interleague play since 2009.

Back to back homers, 12-4 Rockies. Cuddyer goes yard. Rockies still hitting, lol.

11-4 Rockies. CarGo, J4L's boy goes yard. .382 at Coors, in the .240's at home. I think that's 12 Coors Field homers and 5 away now.

8-4 Valverde booed off the mound, yeah!!!!!

DeAza's not liking this match-up, lol. Rocks try suicide squeeze but foul it off. Leyland's going to have to go to Villarreal as his next closer, at some point this season. 7-4 on the sacrifice fly.

Peralta involved with another infield disaster. Valverde is just not the same pitcher he was last season, had a batter trying to sacrifice himself to get the runner to 2nd and ended up throwing it away to 1st. Then the Tiggers' infield was playing in and Peralta charged in towards the plate and the 2nd hop ended up bouncing over his head. Still only 1 out and bases loaded again, 6-4 ROX. Valverde getting booed heartily.

LOL at Valverde. Tigers defense, a non-winning tradition since 2006 post-season.

Overtime in Detroit...

Way too many pitches for the first inning... Let's get out of this, Chris. Seemed a little tentative to go after the red hot Hairston. Heart of the order up for the Tigers in the bottom of the 9th, tie game, against Matt Belisle.

C'mon AJ. Not your strong suit, moving your body instead of stabbing with the glove. Crossed up?

Maybe Sale has too much adrenaline going for this match-up. Normally, he has been more effective ranging his fastball from 89-94 in the early innings, then dialing it up into the mid 90's whenever needed.

Heading for 250-260 K's, has cut down the pace a little bit. He might as well go ahead and put up a 300 just for another remarkably anomalous season in the history of baseball, to go with 50+ homers. Haven't been following the Marlins, just know about the closer's issues, the recent Heath Bell blow-up and that (surprise) Logan Morrison has been struggling with Ozzie as his manager.

So much for Dunn having no bat speed. 94 mph fastball that was actually high and out of the strike zone. Is that the MLB lead for homers now, all by himself?