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Oh, thank heaven, the White Sox are 7-11, after dropping their seventh consecutive game last night.  This one was a 4-1 loss to the Rays on the road. 

The problem again was hitting, or more precisely, the lack of it.  The Sox collected only six safeties, one of which was a home run by Carlos Quentin, which accounted for their only run.  Aside from Q, who is batting .309, only Paul Konerko at .300 and Mark Teahen at .304 (among those who came to the plate for the Sox) are north of .300.  Adam Dunn (.175 after getting a hit), Alex Rios (.183), and seldom-used Ramon Castro (.167) are last night's Sox hitters -- and I use that term generously -- that are below the Mendoza Line.

The pitching would have had to have been great to win with just one run, and of course, it wasn't.  Phil Humber gave up four runs on six hits in 5.1 innings.  The bullpen did manage to shut down the Rays the rest of the way, but it wasn't exactly a high-leverage situation, trailing by three runs.

The loss, combined with Cleveland's win (who are those guys?), dropped the Sox to 6.0 games out of the lead.  The only good news is that Minnesota lost too, so the Sox managed to hang on to fourth place in the Central, one game ahead of the Twins.  Let's mix it up in terms of endings since "Go Sox!" doesn't seem to be working:  Just Win, Baby!