Breaking Injury News: Jose Contreras

Pitcher Jose Contreras, our big horse, has sadly but truly been injuried. He was chasing out a ground ball in the 2nd inning, ran to first, and for somereason slid into first! And the runner ran right into his shin and I believe he has a leg injurie, well of course he does. I am not sure if he has a leg injurie or a shin injurie. As I post this, the Sox are losing in the 9th, and as soon as that game ends I will post my post game report and my, highly rated, Visiting the Central.

INJURY REPORT: Pablo Ozuna

In last nights game, Pablo Ozuna got hit in the head by a ball. He was checked out last night and the x-rays turned out negative (meaning that he's ok). So Pablo is fine, hes back on the bench and is ready to contribute.

Tonights Lineup

*I am now only doing the White Sox part of the lineup*

Pods, LF
Gooch, 2B
J.D., RF
Jimmy, DH
Paulie, 1B
A.J., C
Fields, 3B (New favorite player)
Uribe, SS
Anderson, CF

Pitching - Jose Contreras

Sox lose to Mariners in game 1

The Sox got shutout in game 1 by a final score of Mariners 9 - Sox 0. The M's scored 8 times in the 8th inning. Javier Vazquez didnt pitch as well as he should've, but the only thing that matters is the Sox lost and they only have a few games left in the season to make up for. The thing that bothered me most last night is the fact that we could'nt score any runs off of Jake Woods. I mean, you read the name: Jake Woods and you say "Who?" and the Sox could not score any runs off of a nobody! The Sox need to start scoring off the guys who most people dont know of. Now I know who he is, Im a Baseball freak! And I know that Woods was an avergae rookie last year. And the Sox who are a great offensive team, lost to a nobody! Raul Ibanez recorded his 1,000th hit last night on a home run. And that is not acceptiable. The Sox's pitching needs to come through sometime, their bullpen is not as consistive as it was last year. And I know that people have to stop refrencing to last years "Dream Team" and criticizing this years team. But until they do something about it, we are going to keep refrencing last years team and criticizing this years team. The Mariners do not deserve to beat the Sox but somehow thay did and that reason is their horendous bullpen. Im sorry, but I needed to vent o.k.?

Sox v.s. Mariners: Pitcher Preview

The Sox open up a series against the Seattle Mariners tomorrow/tonight. This is my pitching matchup preview...


Game 1

Pitching Matchup: Mariners - Jake Woods (5-3, 4.19) Sox - Javier Vazquez (11-9, 4.70)
Jake Woods is putting up great numbers. He has faced the Sox twice as a relivever but never as a starter. His ERA is 10.38! The Sox have "Lit him up". And Javier Vazquez is a great new pitcher for the White Sox. He has faced the Mariners once, and beat 'em! He is 1-0 against the M's so lets hope he dosent lose his first game against them.
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Game 2

Pitching Matchup: Mariners - Gil Meche (11-8, 4.34) Sox - Jose Contreras (13-8, 4.08)
Well, Contreras has the better ERA, and also has won more games than Meche. All time against the M's, Contreras is also 1-0 against the Mariners. Gil Meche is an old All Star who has not pitched as great as he should be. He has faced the Sox , you guessed it, once. And has a record of 0-0 against the Sox. So who do you think will win?
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Game 3

Pitching Matchup: Mariners - Felix Hernandez (11-4, 4.68) Sox - Mark Buehrle (12-13, 4.70)
O.k. Felix Hernandez was the highest ranked rookie coming into the season. What do you think of him now? He has won 11 games yes, but his ERA is WAY higher than expected. Mark Buehrle is just 1 win under .500 for the season. He needs this win, but if his bullpen dosent hold up, like it will, he might remain under .500 for awhile.
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Game 4

Pitching Matchup: Mariners - Ryan Feierabend (0-0, 0.00) Sox - Freddy Garcia (15-9, 4.63)
Nobody cares who this Ryan Feierabend is so I'll get right to Garcia. In his last 2 outings, Freddy has only given up 2 hits in 16 innings pitched. That is the sign of a new ace in the Sox pitching staff, next to Jon Garland. But this year he has only allowed 101 earned runs. And he has struck out 129 batters.

Tigers beat Sox, and take series

The Sox have lost to the Tigers in 9 innings. Jon Garland sadly took the loss (17-6) and now might decrease his Cy Young candadicy. Jeremy Bonderman pitched a great game, moving his record to 13-8. Magglio Ordonez, again, played a big role in tonights game, hitting another homer. Ivan Rodriguez also hit a home run. Juan Uribe & Tadahito Iguchi homered for the Sox. The Tigers are still leading the Central division over the Twins who beat the Red Sox tonight. The Sox are now only 10 games away from the end of the season. The Sox elimination number is now 6. So any combonation of 6 Sox losses and/or Twins wins will eliminate the Sox from playoff contention.

Sox Player of the Game: Mike MacDougal, 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K
Sox player of the Series: A.J. Pierzynski, Grand Slam game 2

Lets look at the past series


Game 1
Kenny Rogers v.s. Mark Buehrle
The Sox tragicllay lost this game and they did not need to. The Tigers scored 8 runs to take the victory over Buehrle. Magglio Ordonez hit 2 home runs and drove in 2. The Sox only managed to score 2 off of Detroit pitching. The final Tigers 8 - Sox 2

Game 2
Freddy Garcia v.s. Justin Verlander
The Sox beat the Tigers this time. Riding the shoulders of A.J. Pierzynski's grand slam and Freddy Garcia's 1 hit shutout. The Sox beat the Tigers by a final score Sox 7 - Tigers 0

Game 3
Jon Garland v.s. Jeremy Bonderman
The Tigers take the series with a win. Magglio Ordonez hit another home run as did Ivan Rodriguez. On the Sox side, Juan Uribe hit a home run and so did Tadahito Iguchi. The Tigers take the win and the series by a final score Tigers 6 - Sox 2


Tomorrow the Sox open up the 1st of a 4 game set against the Seattle Mariners. WE NEED MORE WINS!!!!!!

Tonights Lineup

For the Tigers

Granderson, CF
Pudge, C
Casey, 1B
Ordonez, RF
Guillen, SS
Infante, 2B
Monroe, LF
Thames, DH
Inge, 3B

Pitching - Jeremy Bonderman
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And the Sox

Pods, LF
Gooch, 2B
J.D., RF
Jimmy, DH
Paulie, 1B
A.J., C
Sweeney, CF
Uribe, SS

Pitching - Jon Garland

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SPECIAL REPORT:

In Boston. DH David Americo Ortiz hit his 50th home run of the season against the Minnesota Twins. He is the 2nd player in Red Sox history to do so.

Sox send Garland to the mound for game 3

Tonight the Sox are going with Jon Garland (below, left). Jon is 3-1 all time against the Tigers with a 4.50 ERA. He has given up 14 runs, all earned. The Tigers are sending Jeremy Bonderman, who is 1-1 versus the Sox. Garland is putting up a Cy Young season with a 17-5 record, and an ERA of 4.30. And Bonderman (right) has carried the Tigers through a great season. The Tigers won game 1, and the Sox took the win last night by a final score of

Sox 7 - Tigers 0.




[Game Info]

The game is, again, on AM 670 The Score in Chicago, and again, at 7:05 PM CST. The pre and post-game shows, at 6:30 PM CST, are hosted by Chris Rongey. And the game is broadcast by Ed Farmer and Chris Singleton.


Visiting The Central

The Twins play tonight against the Boston Red Sox. Pitching for the Twins is Boof Bonser and for the Red Sox is , future hall of famer, Curt Schilling.

A.J.'s slam pushes the Sox past the Tigers

Freddy Garcia threw a 1 hitter into the 9th, where Bobby Jenks took over to finish the game, although it was not a save situation. In the bottom of the 4th inning, follwing Dye's HBP, Thome's walk, and Konerko's single, catcher A.J. Pierzynski hit a grand slam to put the 1st 4 runs on the board YYEEESS!!! In the 5th, Jermaine Dye bombed his 43rd home run and Jim Thome blasted his 41st. Dye has a chance for 130 RBI + this season, he has 118 surrently with 10 games left in the season, thats 3 RBI per game and he could make it to 130. Kepp that in mind. Then, in the 7th, second baseman Tadahito Iguchi hit his 16th of the year. Garcia went 8.0 innings only allowing 1 hit in the 1st inning to Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez. Tonights attendance was, roughly, 39,850. The winning pitcher was, of course, Freddy Garcia who's record improves to 15-9 and the loser was Justin Verlander who's record went to 16-9. The Sox win the game Sox 7 - Tigers 0.

Visiting The Central

The Central standings look like this

Detroit - Leader
Minnesota - 1 game back
Chicago - 5 games
Cleveland - 19 1/2
Kansas City - 32 1/2, but hey, who really cares?


The Twins beat the Red Sox tonight. Which makes them one of the best teams in the Central
division. Their pitcing staff is one of the best in the MLB! With a healthy Fransisco Liriano and Johan Santan, they are a really, really, really, good team. The Sox have very few games to make up for, 'cuz they lost so many this month. The playoffs are a far way off for the Sox they are 4 1/2 games back in the Wild Card and need to win 5-6 more games in order to even think about the playoffs again.

P.S.
The picture thingy isnt working so thats why I havent had any pics latley

Tonights Lineups

For the Tigers

Granderson, CF
Pudge, C
Casey, 1B
Ordonez, RF
Guillen, SS
Stairs, DH
Monroe, RF
Inge 3B
Perez, 2B

Pitching - Justin Verlander (16-8, 3.42)

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And the White Sox

Pods, LF
Gooch, 2B
J.D., RF
Jimmy, DH
Paulie, 1B
A.J., C
Crede, 3B
Cintron, SS
Anderson, CF

Pitching - Freddy Garcia (14-9, 4.82)

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Those are the lineups for tonights game. Enjoy!!

Can Garcia be perfact again?

Last time out, pitcher Freddy Garcia had a perfact game going into the 9th inning when he gave up a hit and ended his bid on history. This time Freddy has a chance to do it against division-rival the Detroit Tigers and the Sox need a win. In last nights game the Sox lost to the Tigers by a final score of 8-2. The Sox need to find out a way to stop Magglio Ordonez from hitting home runs! He had 2 in yesterdays game. Hopefully Garcia can do better than Buehrle did yesterday and hopefully beat Justin Verlander. The stats on both pitchers.... For Garcia, he is 14-9 with a 4.82 ERA. And for Verlander he is 16-8 with an ERA of 3.42.


[Game Info]

The game is on AM 670 The Score, the pre-game show starts at 6:30 PM CST. The pre and post-game shows are hosted by Chris Rongey, and the Game is scheduled for 7:05 PM CST. The game will be broadcast by Ed Farmer and Chris Singleton from lovlie U.S. Cellular Field.

Sox lose to the Tigers in game 1

The White Sox have lost. NO!!!!!!! Oh well. Kenny Rogers pitched a great game for the Tigers, and Magglio Ordonez did most of their scoring, bombing 2 homers for a grand total of 2 RBI!! Yup, 2 solo shots for Magglio. Mark Buehrle finished up the night with 4 K's, and Josh Fields homered in his first MLB at bat tonight, his first home run/hit ever!. Jim Thome (left) also blasted his 40th home run of the season, in the 8th inning. He now has 101 RBI on the season. The first time since 2004. Brandon Inge also homered for the Tigers in the 9th inning off of Brandon McCarthy. The Sox have 12 more games left to play in the regular season and need to go on an 8-9 game winning streak in order for the Sox to hopefully make it to the playoffs. The Twins also need to stink in the next handfull of games in order for the Sox to make it. The bullpen was de-fective once again for the Sox, with McCarthy, Logan, and Tracy all doing below average.
The final score: Tigers 8 - Sox 2. The Sox's record moves to 84-65 while the Tigers' moves to 90-60.

Visiting The Central

The Twins did not play tonight which is a good thing, sort of, for the Sox. And the Tigers are playing the Sox. The Tigers are now leading in the Central by 1 1/2 games over the Twins. In tomorrows game, for the Twins, the pitching matchup will be Matt Garza for the Twins and Tim Wakefield for the Red Sox. And the Sox-Tigers game will be Freddy Garcia (above, right) for the Sox, and Justin Verlander for the Tigers.

SOX TURN TRIPLE PLAY!!!

The White Sox turned their 2nd triple play of the Season. In the top of the 1st inning, they tripled off Carlos Guillen, Neifi Perez, and Sean Casey.

GAME UPDATE

Ok well the game is in the bottom of the 5th inning, and the Sox are down 3-0. Mags has hit a home run and Craig Monroe hit one also, driving in 2. Mark Buehrle isnt pitching so well, only striking out one in 4.0 innings of work. Kenny Rogers, however, has walked 3 and also struck out 1. That's it for now.



WE NEED A COMEBACK!!!!

Tonights Lineups are set

For the Tigers

Granderson, CF
Monroe, LF
Thames, DH
Ordonez (Traitor), RF
Guillen, SS
Pudge, C
Casey, 1B
Inge, 3B
Perez (old Cub... ewww!), 2B

White Sox

Pablo, LF
Gooch, 2B
J.D., RF
Jimmy, DH
Paulie, 1B
Pierzynski, C
Anderson, CF
Uribe, SS


Those are the lineups. And the pitchers you already know. Enjoy the game!

Sox start series against the hated Tigers

The Sox are hoping for a win tonight, as they take on the Tigers in the 1st of a 3 game set. The Sox send Mark Buehrle to the mound (12-12, 4.76) and the Tigers are going with Kenny Rogers (Left, 15-6, 3.86). The Sox are a great offensive powerhouse, hitting their 200th home run of the season a few days ago. With Jim Thome in their DH slot, and Jermaine Dye in right field, they'll hit alot of home runs. The bullpen has been a problem though, with Neal Cotts not pitching the same as he was last year, and the new additions of David Riske,
]Mike MacDougal, and Matt Thornton not fully living up to their hype, this
White Sox bullpen is not as strong as it used to be. Bobby Jenks, Dustin Hermanson, and Brandon McCarthy (right) are the only (relief) pitchers who are constantly holding the opposition to 2-3 hits on about 1-2 innings of work. SS Juan Uribe is putting up a gold glove run, as well as Joe Crede, Tadahito Iguchi, and possibly Rob Mackowiak.

Game Information

The pregame show starts at 6:30 on AM 670 The Score with Chris "The Ranger" Rongey (if you're in Illinois, like me). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 pm CST. And the game will hopefully result in a white sox win. Ed Farmer & Chris Singleton will be broadcasting from U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

Sox lose to the A's in a heart breaker

The Sox lost to the Oakland Athletics today in a close game. Jose Contreras put up a Fight trying to hold off the A's for as long as he could, although he gace up 5 runs and got the loss. The scoring started in the top of the 2nd inning with A.J. Pierzinski's 2 run blast to right field (A.J.'s 15th). Than in the bottom of the 4th, Frank Thomas bombed a three run homer to left field. The A's took a 3-2 lead after that. The scoring continued into the 5th, and 6th innings, the A's scoring 1 apiece in those two innings. The Sox tried to comeback in the 7th scoring 2 runs in that inning, but could not score anymore. The final score: A's 5 - Sox 4.
Contreras' record moves to 13-8, while Joe Blanton's, A's starter, went to 16-11. Alot of people are thinking of Jermaine Dye as MVP. And Jim Thome as comeback player of the year. Thome is a longshot for that considering the fact that Nomar Garciaparra (1B, Dodgers), Frank Thomas (DH, Athletics), and Carlos Beltran (CF, Mets) are all coming off of a cruddy season.

Visiting The Central

The Hunt for the Wild Card looks like this.

Minnesota - Leader
Chicago - 4 games back
Boston - 8 games
LA Angels - 8 1/2
Toronto - 9 games
Texas - 12 1/2

The Sox need to string together 5 wins if possible and Minnesota needs stink up the Central. The Tigers took a loss to Baltimore 12-8. They lead in the Central by a game over the Twins. And the Sox are 5 games back of first place. Once again the Sox lose to the A's by a final score of

5-4