On the flip side...

After a teriffic April run, the Sox have come crashing back to earth, with their losing streak now at 3. The clutch hits have not been there, as anyone who sat through last nights abysmil offensive ballgame will tell you. The Sox had the bases loaded three times throughout the game, yet were only able to score two runs. One came in the 9th inning, with the bases loaded and nobody out. Rowand hit a sac fly to deep center, scoring one and moving anonther over to third. So first and third with one out, tie ballgame, bottom of the 9th, game over....right? Wrong. Timo Perez was called upon to pinch hit for Dye, and he promptly went down swinging. For more analysis on what the hell Timo was doing in there, check out the Cheats new site, South Side Sox.
Contreras came out strong in the first, painting with his fastball, but every inning after he seemed to be working torward a full count on every hitter. Jose gave up as many walks as he did hits in this one, yet still only yeilded one run on three hits. After the Sox managed to score a run in the 5th to go up 1-0, Jose promply gave it back on his 100th or 101st pitch of the night in the top of the sixth, on a homer to White.
The Sox avg with RISP will fall again after this one, which is not easy to do when you're already hitting .205 in that catagory. They were issued 11 BB yesterday, left 16 MOB, and also had the leadoff man aboard 8 or 9 times throughout the game. Seriously, that is no exaggeration. Yet we only scored 2 runs. That is almost an impossible feat, to have left that many men on base and only score two runs. Maybe they forgot the object of the game is to score, not see how close you can come to scoring without knocking them in. The Sox bats had better wake up, because if they don't soon the Sox will be joining KC and Cleveland in the cellar of the central.