The Sox are in one of those stretches were they can do no wrong. Three 4-run innings were able to offset Jake Peavy's sub-par outing Saturday afternoon against the Cleveland Indians.
Jake was given a 4-0 lead after the first inning but the Indians were able to take the lead in the third scoring 5 times. But the offense that refuses to let up fought back in the home half of the third. Back to back doubles by Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko tied the game at five. Alex Rios then singled to score Konerko to give the Sox a 6-5 lead. Two batters later Dayan Viciedo launched a two run home run to the seats in right to put the Sox up 8-5.
Jake still wanted to keep this contest interesting and served up a two run bomb to Jason Kipins (His second home run of the game) to get the Tribe back to within one in the fifth.
Peavy kept the Indians down in the sixth and allowed the Sox offense to put up another four spot in the 7th and then two more in the 8th off an Alex Rios home run.
The 14-7 victory saw Konerko go 4-4, Alex Rios and Dayan Viciedo go 3-5. Viciedo accounted for 5 RBIs while Rios drove in 3.
The last four games saw the Sox belt opponents 40-18. They are winners of 8 of their last 10 and now stand 1 1/2 behind the Indians with a record of 25-22. I'll take it.
The Sox will conclude their series and homestand today with a 1:10 game. Hopefully the Sox will be banging more home runs this afternoon and the temperatures are expected to be in the mid-90's
4 days of Sox tracker:
# of beers: 10
# of fans seen wearing "All in" shirts: 3
# of home runs hit by the Sox: 12
# of wins: 4
Total time of four games: 11 hours 22 minutes
Jesus God man, 4 games in a row. What brought this on? And can you continue the win streak??
ReplyDeleteAlready had tickets for Wednesday and Friday. Thursday a friend had extras and Saturday was a group outing a friend put together. Good times.
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