Sox Win 3-2

The White Sox improved to 26-9 tonight and extended their lead in the AL central to 5 games over Minnesota. Jon Garland returned to his new stingy self this evening, giving up only 2 runs on 8 hits apparently leaving his ugly win in Toronto behind him. He got himself into a jam in the 8th inning, giving up a few singles and allowing one run before striking out Tehada on a 3-2 pitch with runners on 1st and 3rd to end the inning. Tehada battled back after falling behind in the count, fouling off numerous pitches before Jon was able to get him swinging on a change up in the dirt. Garlands one mistake was to Palmero, who ripped one into the bullpen in right. Hermanson, who is the only reliever in the AL with at least 16 IP that hasn't given up a run, came on in the 9th to record the save and earn Garland his 7th victory of the season..
The offense again managed to score just enough to win with AJ and Uribe hitting solo homer's and Rowand accounting for the difference with an RBI double. Pod was picked off/caught stealing two times this evening, both times leaving on the first move of Chen, who would have none of it. Chen threw to 1st on both attempts, and Palmero got the ball to 2nd in time to catch the Sox speedster. Pod odviously had a tough time getting a read on the soft-tossing Oriole lefty.
Hawk was back in the booth tonight, which was a sweet sound for sore ears after hearing Don Pope last week. He and DJ were joined by Robin Ventura tonight, who stayed on after calling the series in TB with DJ, and to tell you the truth, I liked having the 3 of them call the game. Robin's got a much better voice for announcing than Don Pope did, and his analysis and comparisons seem to make sense more often than DJ's.

Somebody pinch me. Does anybody else feel like this is just too good to be true? I mean, we're 26-9, Garland is 7-0, that's the same Jon Garland who has never won more than 12 games in his career and a month and a half into the season he's already won 7...I'm in disbelief. If there was ever a time for a Harry Careyism, it couldn't be better than right now: "Holy Cow!"

Fridays matchup: Lopez 2-1 4.46 vs. Buehrle 5-1 3.78