Thompson: Can Surprise Indians Continue Hot Start?
On Thursday night, the Cleveland Indians won for the seventh time this season in their final at-bat, defeating Oakland 4-3 in twelve innings.
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On Thursday night, the Cleveland Indians won for the seventh time this season in their final at-bat, defeating Oakland 4-3 in twelve innings.
It can't get any worse for the White Sox. This has to be the bottom of the seemingly endless downward spiral for the team.
Don Dillard is 93 years old. He played parts of six seasons in Major League Baseball with the Indians and Braves. Yesterday he got some good news, he will receive an annual payment of up to $10,000 for his time in baseball
With playoff contenders struggling, predicted bottom-feeders achieving and two appendectomies in the first week, it's sure been a strange start to the season.
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen didn't know what to do except check the TV replay and hope Cleveland had not turned a triple play.
Scoring runs was no trouble for the White Sox as they opened their 2011 season against the Cleveland Indians. Sunday, as the Southsiders were going for a sweep, sending players across home plate was scarce. Chicago's only run was scored when Paul Konerko singled in the third to send Omar Vizquel across the plate.
Given the snow, Ozzie Guillen called the decision to start the season in snowy Cleveland "very stupid." But there won't be any snow there today.
There's no snow in the forecast for Friday's Chicago White Sox season opener in Cleveland, but there's a high of 41 degrees and it should feel like it's in the low 30s. So in other words, it's not ideal baseball weather.
The Chicago White Sox's opening day is quickly approaching. On Friday they'll start their campaign to win the AL Central, and they might be the best of the three top teams in the division.
The Chicago Cubs and Indians were stuck with a 1-1 score into the ninth inning. That was until they broke the tie with Brett Jackson's walk-off, RBI single with two outs. Randy Wells had a strong outing, not allowing an earned run in his four innings on the mound.
Alex Rios hit two home runs and drove in five runs as the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians combined for 32 runs in a 16-16 tie.
The White Sox's pitchers have proved their strengths to the team this season and have gone hitless for 10 2/3 innings. That streak was quickly broken Saturday when the White Sox faced the Indians.
