The Sox were able to get back above .500 last night with a 7-3 win against the Seattle Mariners. Adam Dunn continued his hot hitting by blasting two home runs ending the night with five RBI's. Not too bad, sir. Not too bad.
The nice win follows their abysmal performance this week against the Baltimore Orioles where they dropped 3 of 4 to the current AL East leading team. But let's not start saying "Baltimore sure looks good this year."
They don't. They are doing their usual hot April/May start only to finish well under .500 and in last place like they do pretty much every season.
The series against the Orioles had some ugly numbers on and off the field, as well. The highest paid attendance for the series was for the Wednesday game at 13,818. Brutal, just brutal. But hey, I didn't have to wait in line for a beer that night!
Anyway, Robin will try and secure the series win with Phil Humber on the mound this afternoon backed with the usual lineup...
1. De Aza cf
2. Morel 3b
3. Dunn dh
4. Konerko 1b
5. Pierzynski c
6. Rios rf
7. Ramirez ss
8. Viciedo lf
9. Beckham 2b
The game is on FOX for whatever reason today so it will be a 3:05pm start time. You got to think someone is getting fired at FOX as I write this for deciding to put these two teams on national television.
I can hear the pregame now; "Most of you will see the Yankees battle the Red Sox this afternoon. The rest will see...uh...is this right? The Chicago White Sox against the Seattle Mariners? Really? OK."
Turns out, two percent of America got to see a perfect game. (Altho everybody else got to see a classic Boston implosion which is always fun too.)
ReplyDeleteI should do a follow up piece on the fired FOX worker to see if he's gotten a reprieve...
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