83
Well, that was pretty ugly. Freddy Garcia looked good only in comparison to Mark Buehrle's debacle the day before. Garcia pitched poorly and received no help either in the field or at the plate. You know it's bad when the Sox have more errors (3) than hits (2). While Freddy has shown he can win even when he receives a minimal offensive contribution (the game where Jim Thome's home run was the only Sox hit of the game), he couldn't do it yesterday the way he was pitching. (By the way, does Freddy even think about holding runners on? It looked like he wasn't looking at the Oriole baserunners.)
It didn't happen yesterday, but outhitting the opposition is an almost automatic indicator of a Sox win, with the team posting a 35-4 mark (.897 winning percentage) when doing so. It's not nearly that lopsided when the other team outhits the Sox -- 23-12, only a .657 percentage -- so it's not like everyone else is doing the same thing. Jumping out to a lead on Dye's home run was a good sign -- they're 45-19 (.703 percentage) when they hit a homer and 31-13 (.705) when they score first -- just not good enough.
The only good news for the day was that the A's beat the Tigers, as Nate Robertson became the first Bengal starter to lose a game since June 7. As a result, the Sox remained 2.5 games behind Detroit and picked up a game on them in the Magic Number department. It's down to 83.
Finally, Ozzie is taking some grief for his All-Star selections, but some of the six Sox players (Contreras, Buehrle, Jenks, Thome, Konerko, and Dye) on the squad were selected by the players, and all of them have legit All-Star credentials. I'm okay with Oz choosing his own guys, and besides, we've been screwed by other managers doing the same thing in the past. It's about time that things evened out a bit. Go Sox!
Well, that was pretty ugly. Freddy Garcia looked good only in comparison to Mark Buehrle's debacle the day before. Garcia pitched poorly and received no help either in the field or at the plate. You know it's bad when the Sox have more errors (3) than hits (2). While Freddy has shown he can win even when he receives a minimal offensive contribution (the game where Jim Thome's home run was the only Sox hit of the game), he couldn't do it yesterday the way he was pitching. (By the way, does Freddy even think about holding runners on? It looked like he wasn't looking at the Oriole baserunners.)
It didn't happen yesterday, but outhitting the opposition is an almost automatic indicator of a Sox win, with the team posting a 35-4 mark (.897 winning percentage) when doing so. It's not nearly that lopsided when the other team outhits the Sox -- 23-12, only a .657 percentage -- so it's not like everyone else is doing the same thing. Jumping out to a lead on Dye's home run was a good sign -- they're 45-19 (.703 percentage) when they hit a homer and 31-13 (.705) when they score first -- just not good enough.
The only good news for the day was that the A's beat the Tigers, as Nate Robertson became the first Bengal starter to lose a game since June 7. As a result, the Sox remained 2.5 games behind Detroit and picked up a game on them in the Magic Number department. It's down to 83.
Finally, Ozzie is taking some grief for his All-Star selections, but some of the six Sox players (Contreras, Buehrle, Jenks, Thome, Konerko, and Dye) on the squad were selected by the players, and all of them have legit All-Star credentials. I'm okay with Oz choosing his own guys, and besides, we've been screwed by other managers doing the same thing in the past. It's about time that things evened out a bit. Go Sox!
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