Wednesday, April 17, 2013

So this team can score runs...

Hold up the truck that was backing into U.S. Cellular Field, the Sox have won two in a row!

The Sox put it all together in tonight's 7-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in the Rodgers Centre. The victory also marked the first shutout of the Blue Jays in Toronto since 2007.

The Sox must have gotten some hats for bats. They finally backed  a stellar outing by Jose Quintana where he went 6 2/3 innings striking out seven. Jesse Crain and Donnie Veal played their part as well, not giving up any runs to the potent Blue Jays offense in relief.

Tyler Flowers and Alex Rios both
went yard in tonight's game that saw the Sox pound out eleven hits with five of them being extra base hits.

If the Sox can pull out a win over last year's Cy Young winner, R.A. Dickey they will come home .500. Not awful seeing they lost the first five on this ten game road trip.

It would help if the likes of Adam Dunn,  Alejandro De Aza and Jeff Keppinger can wake up and start producing. These top of the order guys are key to getting this offense going. Keppinger has been inept so far in the first weeks of the season. The "Great White Hope" who was talked up on never striking out has already struck out 7 times. He struck out a total of 31 times last season in 385 at bats.

Then there's Adam Dunn. He has 6 hits in 30 at bats so far with 2 home runs and 17 strikeouts. He seems to have regressed to God-awful Adam Dunn of 2011. It will be interesting to see what Robin does with his position in the lineup if his crap continues.




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