Funny guys, these White Sox. Just when you think they’re about to embarrass a solid Cleveland team by shelling solid lefty Cliff Lee POW! they go ahead and come within sniffing distance of blowing an 11-2 lead. Then, before you even realize it’s the bottom of the 9th with two outs and a runner on first POW! the Tribe is only down by one.<\/p>\n
I’ve posited the question before but I’ll ask it again here: did they really win anything by needing merely nine runs’ worth of a lead, or should we put this one in the Dewon Day column<\/a>? (In all fairness, Mr. Day did quite nicely tonight; this continues and we might have to resurrect the names of Sox bullpen disasters past. A Koch Game? A Jackson Win? Anything’s possible, I suppose.)<\/p>\n Kenny Williams has been saying for weeks that changes were in store, but I’m not sure sending the mostly-unproven Nick Massett down to Charlotte is what he meant. Still, at this point we can only guess who’s coming up in his place tomorrow; if legitimate bullpen help is of the order, right-hander Ehren Wassermann<\/a> (2.11 ERA, 5 SV, 33 K’s in 42.2 IP) might be the logical choice, as he remains one of the last call-ups left that hasn’t yet self-destructed at the major league level. It should be noted, however, that the Sox are calling up talent from a Charlotte team that currently sits alone in last place in the International League’s South division. Sox Junior, if you will.<\/p>\n The positive might be that on a last-place squad, players are more inclined to pitch like they’re trying to get promoted, rather than help out the team. Kind of like how a lot of guys on the Sox are Jon Garland vs. Paul Byrd tomorrow night. Last time out, Garland put one in his W column while the bullpen put one in the D column. Here’s hoping for a better showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you spell relief? C-a-l-l-u-p.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[12,149,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}hitting all those<\/strike> home runs<\/strike> stealing all those bases<\/strike> striking out all those opposing batters<\/strike> making all those diving catches<\/strike>. . . nevermind.<\/p>\n