#notmakinganimpact

This has been a shitty second week of the season for the White Sox.

They received word that second basemen Gordon Beckham is going on the D.L. and is expected to miss six weeks with a bone fracture in his wrist that will require surgery. They were swept in D.C. by the Nationals and watched a familiar scene tonight in Cleveland when Jose Quintana threw a gem only to lose in the 9th inning on a Nick Swisher walk off single. And to add to this mess, they sit in last place in the A.L. Central early on in the 2013 season with a 4-6 record.

The offense wasn't able to muster anything up tonight against Justin Masterson who threw a nine inning shutout while scattering five hits  but Quintana did his best to give the Sox a fighting chance. He went seven scoreless innings while the Sox bats went cold and only had one real opportunity to push a run across the plate.

In the 8th inning Conor Gillaspie led off with a double but Alexei Ramirez failed to lay down a bunt. He popped up the attempt for the first out of the inning. Much can be debated about if Alexei should've been bunting. I thought it was a horrible decision for a guy who has never handled many bunt attempts or is able to move runners along, but hey, the team wasn't hitting regardless so Robin rolled the dice.

A ground out and a strikeout followed Alexei and the threat was over.

In the 9th, Jesse Crain was on to get the game into extras. Unfortunately, Michael Bourn  got a B.S. bloop on the left field line that rolled to the wall that put Bourn on second base. Three batters later, dirty .230 himself, Nick Swisher hit a walk off single to give the Indians a 1-0 win.

 Piss poor.

Four game losing streaks will come and go but this early in the season and after the 4-2 start is pretty disheartening. The Sox are going to have to find ways to succeed with their pitching because scoring runs is something that looks like the Sox will struggle with. Alex Rios can't rake every night...