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I'd actually like to see Santos close. I think he has the sack for it. Not fully blaming Thornton, but I just don't think closing is his thing.

Nice start for Marquez. Anthony Carter with 2 innings, 2 k's. I think we'll see him before the year is done. Peavy--72 pitches in 3 2/3.

That Pomeranz will be in Cleveland before too long. Maybe he does a Hudson type climb through their system this year.

Charlotte: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/gameday...noraaa_chraaa_1 Birmingham: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/gameday...biraax_monaax_1 Winston-Salem: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb

QUOTE (kev211 @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 02:44 AM) Trevor Cahill and Dallas Braden? Lawl they dont scare me at all Sox will get Braden, Cahill, and Anderson next week. Cahill went 8 innings today. 1 run, no walks, 7 k's. Good matchup with Jackson.

Kenny Williams Jr leading off for Birmingham. I think that's all you need to know about the Sox minor league system.

Sox win 5-3. Beckham hits a 2-run homer in the 7th to break the 3-3 tie. Crain and Thornton get the last 6 outs.

Rays Lineup: Fuld LF Damon DH Zobrist 2B Johnson 1B Upton CF Joyce RF Rodriguez 3B Shoppach C Brignac SS Price on the hill.

Can't overlook the Sox were down 3 runs with 2 out and nobody on in the 9th against Soria. That alone makes this a great win.

Good win and bad game all in one. The Sox don't face the Royals now for the next 81 games. See ya July 4th, pesky bastards.

A three game winning streak before Humber starts Saturday wouldn't suck. Need Buehrle to go deep tomorrow. 7+

Oh, I agree. I hate when people say "at least we won the series". The regular season is 162 individual games. They just happen to be played against the same team 2, 3, or 4 games at a time. On the other hand, if you play 10 games at home, 6-4 or 7-3 doesn't suck. QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 03:38 PM) I'm ready to take 'em one at a time this year rather than think what we have to do in a certain series. The past season and a half have driven me batty trying to figure out what we need to do in this series and this roadtrip, etc. One at a time, baby.

Could be a nice brisk wind blowing out tomorrow night. Floyd's gotta keep the ball down. Wednesday should be great day game weather. How about 15 runs in KC, and they come home 4-1?

What would be wrong with a split in KC? Nothing. Come home 3-2, and have a 6-4 or 7-3 home stand. That would be great.

Fine. Ozzie's dumb. And the Sox will not be going wire-to-wire, as the Royals just took 3 of 4 from the Angels.

It doesn't work often, but you have Vizquel and Pierre hitting behind Alexei. I'm just chalking it up to non-execution more than a bad managerial move. But if he decided that he would never call for a bunt unless it's for one run in the 8th or 9th inning, it wouldn't bother me either.

Too bad the Sox aren't playing the Royals tomorrow. They're going to the 13th inning. ...and the Sox dream of a wire-to-wire season is on the line.

I'm going to give Ozzie a break. If Alexei gets the runners over, chances are he comes back with Omar trying to do the same thing with a squeeze play. And if that worked, everyone is happy. Alexei just didn't get the job done in a close game where Danks and Masterson were both pitching well. Now if it was Vizquel and Pierre on 1st and 2nd, I wouldn't want Beckham to sacrifice with his live bat and Dunn and Konerko coming up behind him.

Mental note...stay out of game threads after losses.

Peavy threw 59 pitches in a simulated game today. No problems.

Temps should be in the 60's in KC. I hope that warms the bats back up. Thursday at home...53 with a chance of showers...Isn't that every Home Opener?

Long season. You can question the bunt with Alexei, but I think today was more about Masterson. He pitched a real good game, and Danks made a bad pitch at the wrong time.

Yep, it's official. He's going on the DL, and he could be out up to 3 weeks. 8 games with Tampa, and the Sox might miss him all 8. Reminds me of 2005 when the Sox seemed to catch teams at the right time...either missing their best pitcher or a player hurt. If rotations hold, we'll also miss Price when the Sox go to Tampa. Twins will miss him four games too.

Longoria is out at least a week with an oblique injury. So at the very least, he'll miss the first couple games of the White Sox opening series.

Hopefully the rain/snow moving in will be light enough to play through. They better not play two innings, and then have a long rain delay or something. That would suck for Danks.