Sox Are Shut Out For First Time This Season

The White Sox hitters were dominated by a starter named Santana, though this time his first name was not Johan. Tonight it was Angel starter Ervin Santana who earned his first Big League win by throwing a complete game shutout against the Sox Monday night, and in the process Jon Garland was handed his first loss of the year. Check out this line on Santana: 9IP 5H 0R 1BB 7K and threw only 115 Pitches, 83 of which were strikes.
Garland had a solid start, although he did surrender 11 hits. A few were given up on good pitches that jammed the hitter but some how found a spot to fall in. The most glaring example was in the 6th, when with a runner on 3rd and one out, Garland jammed Molina and he popped up to short center field, but the Sox had the infield drawn in to protect against the squeeze and no one could get to it in time. He didn't come out for the 8th and left with a line of 7IP 11H 3R 3ER 1BB and 4K's on 104 pitches, and 71 were for strikes. Although he didn't win, he added another quality start to the Sox' league leading total of QS's.
The Sox failed to score at least one run for the first time this season tonight, which is surprising with how shaky our offense has been in the early goings. Crede once again looked lost, drawing the hat trick with 3 K's. Iguchi and Konerko had 2 hits apiece, accounting for all of but one of the Sox hits on the evening by themselves. Other than a Timo Perez dribbler back up the middle and a walk drawn by Dye, no other Sox hitter reached base. If the White Sox hitters are any indication of how the rest of the AL will do against this kid when he's on, there's going to be 2 famous young ace's by the name of Santana.