Hopefully the rains holds off and we get this one in.

Mark Gonzales ‏ @MDGonzales

Sox lineup: De Aza cf. Ramirez ss Dunn 1b Konerko dh Pierzynski c Rios rf Fukudome lf Morel 3b Escobar 2b Sale p

I like this lineup

Hopefully the rains holds off and we get this one in.

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏ @CST_soxvan

Athletics today: Weeks 4, Sogard 5, Reddick 9, Cespedes 8, Gomes 7 Suzuki 2, ka'aihue dh, pennington ss, barton 1b.

We're facing a Sox fan today.

There's a good chance Oakland Athletics rookie Jarrod Parker is more familiar with the Chicago White Sox than the Sox's hitters.

 

Parker grew up rooting for the Sox, who will face Parker for the first time Wednesday in the final game of a three-game series.

 

“He throws hard," Sox manager Robin Ventura said after reading scouting reports of Parker. "He has a big arm with a good sinker. We’ll see happens. We haven’t seen too much of him.”

 

Second baseman Eduardo Escobar will make his fourth start.

 

"I don’t like guys sitting for a long, long time," Ventura said. "It’s good to get him in there. he brings a lot of energy and good at-bats."

On a day like today, get deep in the count, make the rookie work.

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2 ground outs and a K. Parker gets the side in order on 14 pitches.

2 ground outs and a K. Parker gets the side in order on 14 pitches.

 

14 pitches isn't too bad. At least it wasn't a 5 or 6 pitch inning.

Two pitches, one out for Sale vs Weeks.

Quick calculations show that from the 2nd spot this year, we're 9-69 (.130 batting average) with 3 doubles and 5 walks.

Sale gets the side on 8 pitches, 7 strikes. If he can keep his pitch count down, that would be huge.

Cespedes' nickname for Ramirez back in Cuba was "Spiderman" because of his gangly arms and legs...

 

Book on Parker...Sit on the fastball or change, make him beat you with the curve or slider (of course, you can say that about 50% of major league pitchers, lol)

 

 

Base hit for Paulie.

PK gets thrown out trying to advance on a ball that got away from the catcher.

Konerko with one of his first mistakes of the season there.

 

Great throw by Suzuki. Excellent play, off-balance, Paulie didn't have a very good read maybe in the day game.

AJ gets a single after an 11 pitch AB.

Rios follows with a ringing double, Cespedes gets to it quickly, holding AJ to 3rd. 2nd and 3rd one out.

Rios looking great so far this year.

Stay hot Rios

Fuko kills one right at 3rd base. Two outs for Morel.

Alex!

 

Three balls killed in this inning. Hopefully we'll get a run to show for it.

Nice work by the A's outfield there....and good relay stops AJ at 3rd.

 

This is the kind of inning we have to score at least 2 here.

 

 

UGH, another Fukudome rocket to the left-hand side. The last one would have scored the tying or winning runs against BALT.