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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) Never has an "off the end of the bat" home run meant so little I guess about a player's progress. Something has got to be done about the offense. You have to score runs to win, and having an offense that struggles mightily to score more than 2 runs against a starting pitching isn't going to get it done. And it's not like we're facing Zach Greinke or Gil Meche when he was going good. This is a raw kid with a great arm but no idea where the ball's going who just happens to be 0-6. That's not an accident. Major league hitters make adjustments. They might have to do the unthinkable and move Pierre to CF and bring up Viciedo and create an atrocious outfield defensive alignment.

Beckham with a rare mistake on a play he usually makes about 90% of the time. Not an error, but he actually overran it.

QUOTE (mcgrad70 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:12 PM) If this is Reinsdorf's version of "all in", I shutter to think what not being "all in" looks like.. You blame JR for Adam Dunn, really? Who would you have signed as DH? Certainly, you wouldn't have kept Mark Kotsay and Andruw Jones?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:09 PM) A hit and run. Maybe. I think he just felt that he needed to protect Pierre with how many times he's been thrown out stealing this season.

Predictable. Yay, the Indians lost so we don't lose ground. The problem is that the Indians are going to beat up the Royals later, whereas we'll struggle to go .500 against them.

Paulino at 112 pitches. He gets Morel and then he's out of there. The biggest difference here is the Royals make contact and put the ball into play. We've whiffed on most of our chances. I know overall we don't strike out as much as other teams because of AJ and Pierre in the line-up, but we've K'ed way too many times with RISP.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) That's the problem right there, why sit a guy who Is doing well to play slugs? Then expect him to produce after sitting 5-6 days Who was playing well? Certainly neither Ramirez, nor Rios. The funny thing is that none of those balls were hit hard. A topspin single through the hole, a gork shot to RF and another seeing-eye single. Only 6 hits through 6 IP. Meanwhile, we failed to knock out a starter who's 0-6 with NUMEROUS chances with RISP.

Peavy just doesn't have it tonight. Still, there's been only one hard-hit ball against him, the one by Escobar in the first inning to the gap. You just had the feeling that the White Sox were playing with fire not knocking the Royals out the last 3 innings with all the runners they left on base.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 07:48 PM) Brent just needs a little time with a good hitting coach.....maybe we can do him a favor and arrange a trade to a team that has one He was playing over his head the first two months. He's not the kind of a player who should have a huge, longish swing path. He needs to make contact and hit the ball on the ground. Hitting all those early homers might have been the worst possible thing to happen to him.

Ugh....how many runners have we left on the basepaths the last 3 innings? 7? 4 in scoring position, I think?

We're almost to the point where Brent might be better off playing in the minors everyday and getting his hitting stroke back, but we can't afford to give up his defense and pinch-running.

Why are Lillibridge and Dunn coming up in every key situation this game? UGH. Brent really needs a baseknock here.

Well, on the plus side, AJ and Pierre are hot. Beckham ripped the ball right at Moustakas in the first at-bat. Paulino's 0-6 and the White Sox are 7-1 in Peavy starts. So you have to like that trend. And you might as well forget about Lillibridge being an everyday player.

And I forgot one: He can drive a golf ball 400 yards. He's supposedly a very good golfer.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:35 PM) Awful, as he misses the hanging slider. When will our hitters learn they're going to throw 2-0 and 3-2 breaking pitches? Especially when you get a 2-0 slider. You're not going to get a fastball at 3-2.

So much for the Dunn is making progress theory. Frustrating.

If the Twins hadn't blown that 7-0 lead the other night, they'd be threatening only 6 games under .500 tonight. As it stands, they've improved the exact same number of games as we have. -20 to -9, White Sox -11 to .500. Paulino already at 78 pitches with no outs in the bottom of the 4th.

I wonder if any team in MLB history has started a hitter at #3 in July who had an average of .170 or below with over 200 previous at-bats that season?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:13 PM) So what the f*** is it with this team. We take fastballsdown the cock, then swing at s*** in the dirt. It's hard to drive in runners when you get it backwards. Because Reynoso destroyed Lilly with the slider the first time up. Then Brent was expecting the local (this time up) and got the express...got down in the count, it's the story of Dunn at-bats all season long. I don't know how you can explain it, but this team ALWAYS rallies when Peavy's pitching and gets behind early.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 08:12 PM) That would be Alex Avila. Of the catchers that were available on the FA market this offseason.

So much for the Lillibridge magic batting touch. He's left the bases loaded 3-4 times in a row now without threatening a hit.

AJ all the way up to a 717 OPS now. He might be the bargain catcher of the year for 2011. 2012, not so much.

Getz saved a run there. But that's what we need out of Quentin. K. Walker bringing good luck to the Sox. He'll be heading to Great Falls on Friday morning out of Salt Lake City.

C'mon Carlos, nice and easy swing for a single. You need to start looking hitterish again.

Not sure if you want Morel to be more known for bunting than XB power, but any way you can get on base in front of Konerko, you'll take it.