136

The White Sox took two out of three from the O's over the weekend, dropping the opener and then winning the nightcap in Saturday's day-night doubleheader, and triumphing over Baltimore in Sunday's game. They sliced their Magic Number to 136 and hold a 2.5 game lead over Cleveland in the A.L. Central (3.5 over Minnesota and KC and 4.0 over Detroit). They've done it on the strength of a league-leading average number of runs scored per game at 5.26. They're also first in home runs with 30 overall and an average of 1.3 per game, which projects to over 200 homers for the season. And, the Sox have the league's best RBI/game total at 5.17. What's so surprising is that the team has the worst batting average in the American League, a measly .244. Perhaps, that fact is not that surprising when you consider how many players aren't even hitting their weight -- a topic we touched upon in Friday's Update. Here's the Weight Watchers list:

• Alexi Ramirez (.133 vs. 185 lbs.)
• Juan Uribe (.155 vs. 225 lbs.)
• Brian Anderson .174 vs. 220 lbs.)
• Paul Konerko (.218 vs. 220 lbs.)
• Jim Thome (.222 vs. 255 lbs.)
• Toby Hall (.250 vs. 255)

Either these guys need to call Jenny Craig or channel the ghost of Charley Lau. Good thing we're in first place or there'd be a bunch of people calling for Kenny Williams's scalp. Wait, there are a lot of people doing that. Oh, well. Go Sox!