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It's time for a little feature we like to call "Fun With Numbers."
2 Games over .500 after the White Sox beat the Braves last night, 4-2, to improve to 36-34. That's the most games above the break-even mark this year -- so far. The low point was 9 games under .500.
8 Games the Sox have won in a row, another season high. The Good Guys have twice lost 4 consecutive games in 2010.
3.5 Games behind the Twins going into today's action. The Sox have been as many as 9.5 games back of Minnesota. The team trails second-place Detroit by 2.0 games.
6 Number of wins and losses for Mark Buehrle after picking up the win last night. It is also the number of innings that Buehrle pitched (2 R, 9 H, 1 BB, 4 K) and number of hits for the very efficient Sox lineup.
11 Home runs by Carlos Quentin this season after hitting 2 last night -- one in the 4th inning, following Paul Konerko's single that drove in Omar Vizquel, and a solo blast in the 7th inning.
0 Runs allowed by J.J. Putz, who is up to 14 consecutive appearances without allowing a run, by Matt Thornton, who picked up his 9th hold of the year, and by Bobby Jenks, who needed only 4 pitches to convert his 10th straight save opportunity into his 16th save.
19 Comeback wins this season, after erasing a 1-0 deficit last night, with the largest deficit overcome of 4 runs being against Cleveland on June 6. That contrasts with 18 losses after leading, with the largest lead surrendered also being 4 runs, which happened 3 times.
12 Number of interleague wins, against only 2 losses, giving the Sox the best record in the major leagues.
42 Number of consecutive wins for Atlanta when scoring more than 4 runs in a game before the Sox beat them 9-6 on Tuesday -- the second-best mark in over 100 years. The longest such streak belongs to the 1906-1907 Cubs with 67 games. Of course, that doesn't count Game 5 of the 1906 World Series, when the White Sox beat the Cubs 8-6 to set the stage for the Sox becoming World Champions the next day with an 8-3 clincher.
2 Games over .500 after the White Sox beat the Braves last night, 4-2, to improve to 36-34. That's the most games above the break-even mark this year -- so far. The low point was 9 games under .500.
8 Games the Sox have won in a row, another season high. The Good Guys have twice lost 4 consecutive games in 2010.
3.5 Games behind the Twins going into today's action. The Sox have been as many as 9.5 games back of Minnesota. The team trails second-place Detroit by 2.0 games.
6 Number of wins and losses for Mark Buehrle after picking up the win last night. It is also the number of innings that Buehrle pitched (2 R, 9 H, 1 BB, 4 K) and number of hits for the very efficient Sox lineup.
11 Home runs by Carlos Quentin this season after hitting 2 last night -- one in the 4th inning, following Paul Konerko's single that drove in Omar Vizquel, and a solo blast in the 7th inning.
0 Runs allowed by J.J. Putz, who is up to 14 consecutive appearances without allowing a run, by Matt Thornton, who picked up his 9th hold of the year, and by Bobby Jenks, who needed only 4 pitches to convert his 10th straight save opportunity into his 16th save.
19 Comeback wins this season, after erasing a 1-0 deficit last night, with the largest deficit overcome of 4 runs being against Cleveland on June 6. That contrasts with 18 losses after leading, with the largest lead surrendered also being 4 runs, which happened 3 times.
12 Number of interleague wins, against only 2 losses, giving the Sox the best record in the major leagues.
42 Number of consecutive wins for Atlanta when scoring more than 4 runs in a game before the Sox beat them 9-6 on Tuesday -- the second-best mark in over 100 years. The longest such streak belongs to the 1906-1907 Cubs with 67 games. Of course, that doesn't count Game 5 of the 1906 World Series, when the White Sox beat the Cubs 8-6 to set the stage for the Sox becoming World Champions the next day with an 8-3 clincher.
That's it for now. Go Sox! Sweep the Braves!
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