Got distracted, but looks like AJ had a hit, but inning over. Lots of changes on both sides now.

 

Jared Mitchell at the plate.

Apparently not going to this year either.

He's a friend of mine and has had horrible injury luck. He's one of the nicest most humble guys I've ever met.

Mitchell singles. Semien up to bat, one out.

Semien walks. Runners at first and second. Gartrell up.

Apparently not going to this year either.

 

I wonder what happened in 2005. Pure luck? A little extra "oomph" on his pitches? He barely has another league average season.

Gartrell lines out to left. Mitchell to 3rd. 2 out. Wilkins up.

Wilkins single, Mitchell scores, Morel up. 12 -0

Mercy rule time

Ground out to the SS for Morel. On to the Texas half of the 5th.

 

 

Omo out, Santos Rodriguez in.

Santos a bit wild, 2 wild pitches, then Mike Olt with a dinger to center. 12 -2 Sox.

He's a friend of mine and has had horrible injury luck. He's one of the nicest most humble guys I've ever met.

 

 

Well for what it is worth I liked Neal Cotts when he was with the Sox

I wonder what happened in 2005. Pure luck? A little extra "oomph" on his pitches? He barely has another league average season.

Worth noting is that he started getting hurt a lot more after 2005...culminating in the Tommy John surgery in 2009.

Does anyone know if the offensive success that the Sox have seemingly had so far this spring has to do with anything in particular they are working on? Are they trying to hit the other way? Sacrificing power to make more contact? Taking more walks? etc... Are they just facing bad pitching? Just curious.

At this point, don't take anything from anything. You've got all of the above and more so. You also have pitchers throwing a lot of extra fastballs to stretch themselves out, breaking balls that don't break normally thanks to the Arizona air (this seems to come up with Gavin Floyd every year in the spring), games that are full of minor league players and pitchers who commit errors or get killed much easier, on top of anything someone may genuinely be working on.

3 - 0 now. Runners on 2nd & 3rd. One out.

Rodriguez out and Zach Stewart in after another single that scored another run. 12 - 4 now.

Any word or tweets on how Nestor did?

Any word or tweets on how Nestor did?

2 scoreless innings, 1 hit, 0 strikeouts, 0 BB, 19 pitches, 12 for strikes. He would have faced their regulars mostly; Kinsler, ANdrus, Murphy, Pierzynski, Jeff Baker, Mitch Moreland, Aaron Cunningham.

Another run scores on a ground out, the next batter is out. Inning over. 12 - 5 Sox.

I'm just about done, but if anyone wants to follow the game on gameday:

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?g...mp;mode=gameday

Flyball.

Caught.

Santos out, Zach Stewart in to save the day. 12-5.

Gillespie singles. 5 -0 now.

 

Hopefully he lives up to the first round pick status!

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan

Pierzynski. "Another game. I've said all I needed to say about the White Sox. I'm happy that it's over so you can quit asking me about it.''

Ranger play-by-play announcers raving about a great diving play by Morel, who throws out runner from his knees