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The White Sox wasted a Quality Start from Mark Buehrle last night, falling to the Yankees, 3-1, the victims of a stellar performance by Bartolo Colon.  Bartolo Colon?  Really?  Yep.  The same guy who's been out of the big leagues since failing to complete the 2009 season with the Sox -- he was 3-6 with a 4.19 ERA in 12 starts -- lasted 8.0 innings and gave up just one run on seven hits to earn the win.

Carlos Quentin (3 for 3), Paul Konerko (1 for 4), and Adam Dunn (2 for 4) were almost the entire offense for the Sox.  Despite the rest of the lineup going 1 for 21, the Sox managed to outhit the Yanks, as Buehrle allowed just six hits and reliever Jesse Crain permitted none.  Usually, that's a pretty good sign that the Sox are going to get the W.  Before last night, the Good Guys were 8-3 in games where they outhit the opposition (and only 1-11 when the enemy outhit them).  Of course, the team's record when scoring fewer than four runs is 2-12, and 0-5 when scoring just one run, so it's really not that big of a surprise.

The only ray of sunshine is that last year after 25 games, the Sox had the same 10-15 record they have this year and they came back to spend a considerable amount of time in first place.  Let's hope they've got it in them again to climb out of the hole they've dug.  Go Sox!