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Daniel Hudson was good enough last night to keep.  Or trade.  Personally, I'd rather play with the guys we've got than mortgage the future by picking up a rental player -- e.g., Adam Dunn -- for the rest of the season and then losing him.  Hudson made his case to stay -- or go elsewhere -- by throwing 6.2 innings of five-hit, one run ball to pitch the White Sox over the Mariners, 6-1, in Seattle.

Matt Thornton (0.1 IP), Tony "We must be way ahead or behind" Pena (1.0), and Scott "Yes, I'm still on the team" Linebrink (1.0) each shut out the M's in relief.  Fortunately, the game wasn't close enough at the end to need Bobby Jenks.  By the way, because he didn't give up the tieing run, Jenks wasn't charged with a blown save.  But we know who really blew it on Sunday.

The Sox bats were alive again last night.  Alex Rios slammed his 100th career home run (16th this season) and Andruw Jones slugged his 401st (13th in 2010).  The team collected a dozen hits with everyone except Mark Kotsay getting at least one, and four guys getting two: Omar Vizquel; Rios; Paul Konerko; and Gordon Beckham.  Vizquel's multi-hit game was his fifth in his last six starts and raised his batting average to .271.  Omar was batting just .244 going into the All-Star break.  Beckham, who was carrying a .206 average on July 3 is now up to .241.  Nice improvement for the two infielders.

The win moved the Sox to a 2.5 game lead over the Tigers and Twins, both losers last night -- and permanently to most Sox fans.  Two more with the Mariners and then it's on to the West Coast version of the White Sox personal House of Horrors -- Oakland.  Go Sox!