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I was traveling on business yesterday, so no Update then, and now I'm jammed, so this is going to be real short.  But that's okay, since you don't really want to read about the White Sox's last night's 2-1 extra-inning loss to the Mariners.

Gavin Floyd (7.0 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 6 K, and 2 BB) locked up with Felix Hernandez (8.0 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 6 K, and 0 BB) in a good old-fashioned pitching duel.  They both turned it over to their bullpens, and both were let down -- Floyd just enough more than Hernandez.  After going ahead in the top of the 11th on an Omar Vizquel single that scored Gordon Beckham, who had doubled off the wall, Ozzie turned it over to Bobby Jenks. 

Bad Bobby was just that.  Seattle's Jack Wilson beat out a bunt down the first-base line for a single.  Ichiro sacrificed Wilson to second, who moved to third on Chone Figgins's line single to center.  Figgins stole second, and then Franklin Gutierrez delivered his third hit of the night, a line single to left-center that plated both Wilson and Figgins for the Mariners' win.  This time, Jenks was charged with the blown save and the loss.

If the Sox wind up losing the Central Division by one or two games, we're all going to look back on Jenks's failure to hold the lead against the Twins and now the Mariners as games that should have been won, but weren't.  The lead for now is still safe at 2.5 games over the Tigers and Twins.  Let's get 'er done in Oakland , which is on a two-game winning streak and has a 28-21 record at home.  I don't have time to look it up, but I know that the Athletics' record against the Sox out there has to be much better that that over the last several years.  Go Sox!