Dorfman: White Sox Baseball: It's Getting Ugly Out There
One of the really dangerous things to do is declare a baseball season over on Memorial Day.
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One of the really dangerous things to do is declare a baseball season over on Memorial Day.
After another frustrating loss, Chicago White Sox starting pitcher John Danks had words for Toronto's Jose Bautista.
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen doesn't want anyone to question his passion for winning and he lashed out at some Chicago fans for being forgetful of the team's recent success.
John Danks took another pounding, but the wound that hurt most was the one to his pride. And when it happened, Danks made sure to let Jose Bautista know how angry he was.
Despite rallying from three deficits Saturday, Ozzie Guillen wasn't happy with his team's lack of clutch hitting and let it be known after Corey Patterson hit a walk-off home run in the 14th inning to give the Blue Jays a 9-8 victory.
Corey Patterson hit a game-ending homer in the 14th inning, Jose Bautista connected for his major league-leading 20th home run and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 9-8 on Saturday.
Yunel Escobar doubled home the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Friday night.
The success that the Chicago White Sox have had this season has come, largely, becuase of their pitching. The White Sox rank in the bottom half of all of baseball in team on-base percentage and batting average.
Chicago, like any city, has seen its share of free agent disasters through the years. Bryan Cox, Eddie Robinson, Danny Jackson all come to mind. But how often do you get to see on one night two acquisitions that as of now look like colossal screwups?
The Chicago White Sox had a big offseason, largely due to the signing of free agent slugger Adam Dunn. The idea of Dunn in a lineup with Paul Konerko and Alexei Ramirez got fans excited, but the lineup fans expected hasn't fully materialized.
Juan Pierre's ninth-inning infield single drove in the tiebreaking run and the Chicago White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 on Thursday night.
Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Gavin Floyd scattered three hits over seven innings and gave up only one earned run. But despite his great performance, the White Sox dropped Wednesday's series finale to the Texas Rangers by a score of 2-1.
Carlos Quentin hit three home runs and the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 8-6 on Tuesday night in a game delayed nearly three hours by heavy rain and hail that sent the crowd hustling for cover all throughout the ballpark.
Through the first 49 games of the season, Adam Dunn is hitting just .189 with four home runs and 21 runs batted in, numbers far below what was expected when the Chicago White Sox signed the free agent slugger in the offseason.
Through his first 10 starts of the 2011 season, Chicago White Sox pitcher John Danks has seven decisions, and they're all losses. But his 0-7 record is nowhere near indicative of the season that he's having so far.
