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The perfect correlation between multi-homer games and White Sox victories is no more.  Last night, despite home runs from Alexei Ramirez and Donny "I like Pierzynski, but I love" Lucy, the Good Guys lost 7-3 to the Blue Jays in the finale of the four-game series in Toronto.  Frankly, if you'd told us in advance that the Sox would split the series with the Jays, we'd have signed up for that, but once they'd won two, we wanted that third W bad.  (That should not be confused with a third term of W, which would be bad.)

The problems were a shortage of other hits -- singles by Juan Pierre, Gordon Beckham, and Alex Rios were the only other safeties -- and a horrible outing by Freddy Garcia.  Sweaty Freddy couldn't retire a batter in the fourth inning and by the time he gave way to Randy Williams, Garcia had allowed seven runs on eight hits and three walks.  He did strike out three Blue Jays, as did each of the four relievers who followed him.  Thankfully, the bullpen guys -- Williams, two innings; Sergio Santos, one inning; J.J. Putz, one inning; and Scott Linebrink, one inning -- didn't follow his lead on giving up runs.  Instead, they shut out Toronto the rest of the way.

Some thoughts on the pitching:  Santos struck out everyone he faced, and Putz and Linebrink got all of their outs by way of the K, as well.  Santos kept his ERA at 0.00, which is slightly better than Garcia's 8.10.  Daniel Hudson, you'd better keep a bag packed.  You might be up here as the fifth starter before you know it.

Tonight, Mark Buehrle (2-0) takes the mound against the Indians.  Hopefully, the Mark of Zero can keep his early season success going, but he doesn't really like pitching in Cleveland where he has a 4.18 ERA for his career.  Go Buehrle, Go Sox!