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First place, at least a tie for now. Great 1-2-3 inning for Addison. This team now has all their parts jelling at the same time. This time, dominant starting pitching, Beckham and Viciedo hitting, the Dunn bomb, a great defensive play by Hudson that may have save the game and the lockdown bullpen. Paul Konerko with a 13 game hitting streak, barely made it but flipped another ball into the OF. The Rays can feel they could have won this game with Longoria, Jennings and Keppinger...but even they realize how good Sale was today. One off the all-time Sox strikeout record, breaks the Trop Dome record of 14 by the inimitable Pedro Martinez. Matt Moore's best game with the Rays so far this season. Drops to 1-5.

Nothing equals 2005 and 2006 (first half), with the possible exception of 2000 when it had been so long since the White Sox had a good team. 2008 and that stretch in 2010 when we went 26-5 was sweet too, but no way it compares to the sheer roller coaster, hollow feeling in the pit of your stomach the final 2-3 weeks of 2005. Joe Crede lives.

Josh Reddick SUPER quietly has 14 homers for the A's. Capps threatening to blow yet another save for the Twins...coming off the Cabrera homer to dead center yesterday.

13 game hitting streak on the line for Konerko. Upton lost his 10 game streak (presumably).

QUOTE (McDude @ May 28, 2012 -> 03:10 PM) I realize Alexei has great defense. People forget he is already 30. Not much of an upside left, it's time to start thinking of a replacement. If not now, then next year. Going by that logic, we would have let Konerko go six years ago. Alexei's a thin guy, it's not like you're worried about weight issues with him as his career goes on. He's shown no signs of a fall-off defensively, and he's been hitting a lot more line drives right at people...he's definitely pulling his weight offensively the last 2-3 weeks or so.

The Jack Harshman 16 strikeout game was July 25th, 1954, against the Boston Carmines.

Upton 2/4 in his career again Crain, fwiw. Small sample size.

Thornton warming for Sox, Peralta for Rays. Hanger there by Crain, got away with it.

114 pitches. Last pitch at 96. Slow grounder to Beckham. Joyce and Luke Scott looming. Sean Rodriguez hit the game winning homer against Boston yesterday. That's the TROP DOME record for strikeouts, beats 14 by Pedro Martinez. Pretty good company, considering how many good Yankees, Red Sox and Blue Jays (Halladay) pitchers have gone there for nearly 20 years.

Wow, Ventura's going to let Sale start the bottom of the 8th. That's a surprise, especially with Robin being the one who most wanted to protect Sale by putting him in the pen.

Stupid Royals. Just gave up a 5 spot to the Indians, Mendoza pitching for KC.

Scrubs with a 4 run lead late in the game against the Padres, 11-7 in the 8th.

15 K's. That probably was his last hitter.

Molina 5 for 37 at home. This is the time of the game where the Brothers Molina always seem to come up with huge, clutch hits.

Luke Scott and Matt Joyce are on the bench. Sale's FB has ranged today from 89-97 MPH. Dammit AJ, that's not helpful. Would be a shame if two runs scored today by getting to 2B in that fashion.

Tough match-up for Carlos Pena, but also equally dangerous for Sale.

Bunting? LH/LH match-up doesn't usually end up well for hitters against Sale. OOps, forgot Johnson was a switch-hitter. Great play by Orlando Hudson down the 3B line. Saved a run possibly, definitely would have been runners on 2nd and 3rd.

Jesse Crain warming up. 100 pitches...101 pitches. 2nd walk of the game. Uh-oh.

http://www.mangphoto.com/btp/html/news/htm...layer_3293.html Harshman was a lefty. So he was the all-time record of 16 K's in 1954, and obviously the record for a Sox lefty as well.

You'd have to think that with 95 pitches, at best he'll get the 7th inning to tie the White Sox all-time record of 16. Can't imagine he would get pushed up into the high 110's or low 120's. Guess it depends on how Chris is feeling, but you just can't afford to chance it. 23 pitches last inning, and a few foul balls. Only four "regular" outs.

That might be the Sox record for strikeouts by a LHP. Was Harshman in 1954 LH? Alvarez's career high?

16 the record for Sox strikeouts in a game, Jack Harshman in 1954. 14 K's...would have a legit chance at 20 K's, but absolutely no way they're going to push him well over 100 pitches....would they?

Didn't realize Farnsworth's father was shot down twice in Vietnam. They were just playing a snippet of an interview with him and he was absolutely bawling reminscing about his dad, his sacrifices, how lucky he was to survive...about "adopting" a soldier through one of the many military/veteran websites out there.

Now the question is if Moore can get settled down again or whether he implodes... Sale definitely righted the ship after the gift run scored instead of letting his anger get to him. 9 homers is a ton for Moore at this point in the season. 2nd homer by a lefty. Dunn's LHP struggles last year aren't such an issue in 2012. Seems like so long ago that Lillibridge seemed the much better option there at DH against LHP.

Leyland and Lamont got thrown out of that Tigers/Red Sox game. Looks like the Cubs are in danger of actually winning a game, up by one in the 7th. Maybe that will jinx them, like usually happens in the wrong way with Indians and Tigers games. And it's not like they have a closer these days. Dave Wills said Ventura is taking a page out of the Rays' playbook. Flew from Chicago to TB with shorts, flip-flops, t-shirts. Doesn't seem to be so concerned with them being dressed up like businessmen on the plane, especially when the team is playing well and so loose and relaxed.