We win. Nice job by Ventura

That was a dumb play.

Still a nice one

Nice job of closing there. Good play on the routine grounder by Beckham. Sox win.

Sox 5-4................Belly cannot be marched out again as closer.

Scott schoeneweis for closer

A rare win when giving up 4 runs.

 

2-11

Once again, Robin haters who would have buried him have to give him credit for yanking the horrific Bella in the ninth! Great move by Ventura.

Abreu lead off SportsCenter

Alexei with unnecessary risk

That's what happens when you get desperate - you try to do too much to pick up your teammates. Luckily Alexei is so talented he got away with that, because if he would have missed it he would have been the goat.

Once again, Robin haters who would have buried him have to give him credit for yanking the horrific Bella in the ninth! Great move by Ventura.

 

Wow, you're terrible.

 

Haters? Bella? Stop. Just stop.

Sox will win, but this is ugly.

 

 

Wow, you're terrible.

 

Haters? Bella? Stop. Just stop.

What are you talking about? I'm not nearly as critical as many on the board. I was trying to praise Robin.

 

Good call by flavum on the win.

Edited June 28, 201411 yr by greg775

Bella's ERA up to 5.79. I have no idea what it is if you only include his closing appearances.

Conor is not a 3rd baseman PERIOD!

Don't worry, we have Matt Davidson waiting in the wings. He may not be any better defensively, but he can't make contact either.

Runs scored- Runs Allowed

350-386

 

Games 1-27:

150-141 (On pace for 900 runs)

 

Games 28-54:

105-125 (On pace for 765 runs)

 

Games 55-81:

95-120 (On pace for 700 runs)

 

200 runs scored over the last two months of games. Back to 2013.

 

 

Welcome to the closer role, Petricka. You are obviously the latest who will be giving it a try. Bella is done for that role.

Bella got a hold

Bella got a hold

 

Not trying to flame, just a question. If Robin left him in, do we lose that game?

Listening to Ventura. Sounds like Belisario is done as closer.

Bella's ERA up to 5.79. I have no idea what it is if you only include his closing appearances.

Just quickly, he's given up a .960 OPS in the 9th inning and a sub .500 OPS when used 6th-8th. His ERA in the 9th is 9.22.

On a positive note, Petricka looked good on the road. He attacked the situation with confidence at least.

Homers matter:

 

0 homers: 6-28

1 homer: 12-11

2 or more: 19-5

After the way things have been going, you almost expected to lose that one.

 

Not even really a sigh of relief. Pitchers are afraid of the defense making mistakes behind them, and the entire team doesn't trust the bullpen to hold a lead. The perfect storm. A bit difficult to build a winning/attitude culture at the major league level when there's such a lack of trust.

 

One can only hope that Hahn finds a way to find a more reliable closer before 2015. Another hope would be that we don't put all our faith in Nate Jones, assuming he actually pitches in August-September and looks pretty good.

Edited June 28, 201411 yr by caulfield12

Homers matter:

 

0 homers: 6-28

1 homer: 12-11

2 or more: 19-5

 

 

I wonder how many times the White Sox have lost games they had 4 or more homers? It almost happened tonight.

 

The Belisario "hold/non-blown save" is the most ridiculous statistic is baseball. He gave up a homer, got one out and gave up two more hits and he's somehow rewarded for 3/4 hitters reaching base or scoring.

Edited June 28, 201411 yr by caulfield12

Dunn is hitting .230 with 12 homers and 33 rbis. To me that's blah. My guess is he's some sort of modern day hero according to his advanced stats.

Dunn is hitting .230 with 12 homers and 33 rbis. To me that's blah. My guess is he's some sort of modern day hero according to his advanced stats.

 

0.3 WAR.

 

Not even close to good. He's on pace to be well an average major leaguer this season.