What part of the team is in a larger slump, the WhiteSox pitching staff, or their hitting offense. What are your thoughts?

The hitting, obviously.

Hitting, but the starters have really choked as well. We're not even getting six innings out of most of them, much less 7.

Also the relievers have SUCKED. Thornton, Myers, even Veal has sucked during the choke spell.

It's been a disgraceful stretch of 1-8 record I believe. Disgraceful.

Obviously the hitting...the SP hasn't been that bad

 

10 of the 15 loses in September have been by 2 runs or less.

Edited September 28, 201213 yr by 2nd_city_saint787

Pitching has been very good.

What part of the team is in a larger slump, the WhiteSox pitching staff, or their hitting offense. What are your thoughts?

How is this even up for debate? The rotation hasn't been bad at all during this losing streak. Offense has been brutal all month.

How is this even up for debate? The rotation hasn't been bad at all during this losing streak. Offense has been brutal all month.

 

Is this even a real poster or some kind of spam bot?

 

Look at the last three posts he made

What part of the team is in a larger slump, the WhiteSox pitching staff, or their hitting offense. What are your thoughts?

I believe that the hitting offense is in a larger slump. Thanks for asking, WhiteSoxNews! You really bring the hard hitting questions around here!

The mistakes in pitching are over magnified when the hitting is anemic. It seems there is a lot more micromanaging this late than in May. I think Cooper is ineffective later in the season. That is something the organization needs to look at.

What part of the team is in a larger slump, the WhiteSox pitching staff, or their hitting offense. What are your thoughts?

 

If you have to ask this question, you need to start watching more baseball.

If you have to ask this question, you need to start watching more baseball.

 

I merely asked the question to see what others had as opinions about it, not because I didn't know the answer. Personally, I believe it is a combination of both the pitching staff and the hitting performance in the past few weeks that has led to late-inning September losses for the team. Offensively we have been struggling during almost every inning of the game, but the real problem as far as pitching does not lie with-in our starters, but in our relievers and late inning bullpen. In a recent game we went into the ninth inning tied 3-3, and the WhiteSox reliever Bret Meyers gave up a solo shot to give the KC Royals a 4-3 lead. Our offense was unable to perform successfully during our last at bat of the game. Whether that loss in particular was a direct result of our pitching or hitting, there is no argument that the pitching aspect had an effect on the outcome, and inevitable losses for the WhiteSox recently.

In a recent game we went into the ninth inning tied 3-3, and the WhiteSox reliever Bret Meyers gave up a solo shot to give the KC Royals a 4-3 lead. Our offense was unable to perform successfully during our last at bat of the game. Whether that loss in particular was a direct result of our pitching or hitting, there is no argument that the pitching aspect had an effect on the outcome, and inevitable losses for the WhiteSox recently.

 

If your offense is scoring 4 runs or less for 13 STRAIGHT GAMES your pitchers are going to be put in enough pressure situations that they are inevitably going to fail in several of them. Pitchers don't have 0.00 ERAs. They give up runs. In order to win games, the offense has to build leads so that those runs don't decide the game.

The pitching has been okay. The hitting has been downright abysmal. How many times did they have the bases loaded with less than 2 outs? How many runs did they score? It's been terrible.

The f***ing Sox.

ah, it's September "what happened to us" time?

 

11-17 in a month chalked full of KC, CLE, MIN.....after weeks of success against top teams, who'd a figured this relatively easy month would have done us in....classic white sox

 

oh, and yeah, the hitting definitely..... LOB was excruciating, and the decline of PK IMO was the difference maker, even a few clutch hits in the right games would have kept us in first and given pitching some room for error. love the guy but we lived by him in the 1st half and died by him in the second, unfortunate

If your offense is scoring 4 runs or less for 13 STRAIGHT GAMES your pitchers are going to be put in enough pressure situations that they are inevitably going to fail in several of them. Pitchers don't have 0.00 ERAs. They give up runs. In order to win games, the offense has to build leads so that those runs don't decide the game.

 

It's all mental. Tonight points out again how the team just can't play when the pressure is on. No pressure tonight, so voila ... 11 runs.