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Floyd has four more batters to go. Then Ozzie has to go to Thornton, unless Gavin just really finds that curveball and gets on one of his patented rolls through the line-up for 2-3 innings. Unfortunately, he's at 94 pitches and he still might have to go Monday on three day's rest against DET. I wonder who would be pitching for the Tigers in that theoretical game?

Why can't Ozzie use Anderson there? He's just bound and determined to play Griffey until we're setting up tee times for next week.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 07:41 PM) i thought konerko was supposed to be hot. he's got one hit in this series. Past tense. 5 for 28 stretch recently. Got cool just when we needed him to carry the team with CQ out.

That was a foul ball according to Farmer and Stone. Well, we definitely succeeded in letting them right back into this game when we needed Gavin to mow down the bottom of the order.

Looks like it is at best 50/50 that Cliff Lee will make his scheduled start against us Sunday.

BA would have no prayer against a pitcher like Slowey. Fine, I'll play along and give you a 0-0 tie, but our offense isn't likely to score the way things are going, not if we couldn't get a big hit off Blackburn.

It's especially nice to hit .311 with RISP. Every hit in this game has been to the opposite field. They just have the right approach and game plan. The Twins' pitchers and approach is just better. Get ahead with a first pitch strike, usually on breaking balls. The odds for the batter go down astronomically starting off down 0-1. Just very difficult for our hitters to pick up the offspeed stuff in that building for some reason. And very few batters on our team (other than Ramirez) can make the needed adjustments at the plate from pitch to pitch, and AB to AB.

White Sox 5-16 so far in domes this season. The only consolation is we would have been completely embarassed playing at TB. At least Minnesota has a chance to actually beat then, especially with Wheeler looking vulnerable and Percival battling health issues.

Where will the bunt or infield single end up with this at-bat? Gork shot? Dunker?

Young a career .398 hitter vs. CWS. Guess it just went down a bit.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 07:30 PM) What the f*** Griff? I hope he did that without a call and gets his ass benched. It's a little late in the season for a Griffey benching to have any effect on this team. Even if Griffey was benched, he still wouldn't use Anderson, lol.

Why is he swinging at a 3-0 pitch that's outside and high, not low in his happy zone. Everyone is pressing. They HAVE to fire Greg Walker or I will have no hope of this team every making the post-season again.

so he has some material in case there's a blowout. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AkLc...o&type=lgns

This game will be remembered for that call at 2B. The White Sox are so terrible in domes this year, realistically, what are the odds of beating the D-Rays? We could play Minnesota, Toronto and TB 100 games on the road and possibly win 10-15.

117 pitches now.

Adam Russell and MacDougal? Has Guillen lost his mind? You either use Thornton or Buehrle to get through the heart of the line-up in the 7th.

The question is, what line-up will Ozzie use tomorrow? Can you stay with Wise,junking the experiment with the new line-up after one game? Do you try Swisher? Slowey is a command and control pitcher.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 08:53 PM) we get bonser next inning or Crain...I think Gardenhire is struggling with the decision. Both have been consistently erratic all season long.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 08:51 PM) Hell of a job managing Gardy. It was pretty obvious that Blackburn was throwing BP fastballs last inning. Griffey had homered, two out of three lefties coming up, and Blackburn's pitch count was up. You can credit him for picking Breslow (over Mijares, Reyes, Guardado), but it wasn't a great move.

Good thing it's not debate this inning. Breslow went to Yale.

91 pitches....maybe he can give us two more...if we're really fortunate.

Swisher and Anderson tomorrow? Wise and Dye are really not distinguishing themselves tonight, to put it mildly.

Farmer's right. The White Sox looks like a team that has never seen, properly identified or hit a curveball. Blackburn's is absolutely nothing special, it's just kind of hanging up there out and over the plate, but we're not picking it up at all. Exactly the kind of pitcher Brian Anderson has no prayer to hit.... Which is why Griffey is in there. Thank you. The only problem is our bullpen will decide this game...guess it couldn't be much worse than Mark's first three innings.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 07:07 PM) Fixed. Q was carrying this team and took the pressure of these underachieving pansies. Well, between Contreras, Linebrink and Quentin, each injury has had different but obvious impacts on our second half performance.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 07:07 PM) They also had Crede, who's one of those guys who has intangibles that winning teams need. Stat guys never get this. See Iguchi, Tad. 65 pitches. When's the last time Mark had that count through 3? This is starting to remind me of that WS game that he just kept battling and keeping it close...although our bullpen then was SLIGHTLY better, lol.