Watch A Sox Game, Have a Heart Attack

The White Sox were in a 1-1 ballgame in the 5th inning when out of no where the wheels came falling off. Joe Crede booted a double play ball, Konerko dropped the ball on the transfer when he would have easily gotten the runner trying to score with a good throw, then Garland gives up a 3 run bomb. All of the sudden it's 6-1 D-Backs after 4 1/2. Then, again out of nowhere, a Frank Thomas solo shot began a bombardment as the Sox exploded for 10 runs in the 6th. Uribe homered, Konerko homered, Dye had an RBI, everybody chipped in. The Sox also caught a few breaks from errors by the D-Backs, including one by former Sox SS Royce "Swing for the Fences" Clayton. RC also botched a routine grounder when he couldn't decide what to do and ended up holding on to the ball as a run scored. This was the first time in the series that the Sox were able to rough up a D-Backs starter to get into their generous pen. Watching this game I was thinking to myself, as I thought my Sox were about to be swept for the first time of the season after that horrific defensive inning, that maybe this was going to turn out to be the turning point of the season. Four games in a row the Sox starters had been roughed up, the offense had begun to look like last years, unable to score without homers, (they had gone 28 innings without scoring a run that wasn't via the homer, a steak that wasn't broken until the 6th inning tonight). Altogether things were just not looking good. It's amazing what a 10 run inning can do to cheer somebody up. After the game I was back to pondering who I would want to start the first three games of the ALDS. I just hope that the 6th inning outburst was a sign of things to come because the offense hadn't looked too pretty the last couple of games.

Buehrle goes to the hill for the Sox on Friday to try and break the streak of no decisions he has received over the last month or so. The Dodgers will send Houlton, 2-0 5.72, out to the bump for what will be a rematch of the 1959 World Series. I believe it will be the first time that these two teams have met since then, a span of 46 years.