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QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 02:17 AM) I said it in the chat, but I'll say it here -- Ozzie's delegating Marte to LOOGY roles pisses me off. He's clearly been our best reliever the past three seasons, and it's bulls*** that he's getting so few innings... I completely agree. Marte should have been in to face Jones in the 8th inning. Hermanson struggles against lefty batters, and Marte's one of the best in baseball against lefties. If you're going to use him as a loogy, at least use him properly.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 02:06 AM) I think he overslid the base, and then he tagged him. Doesn't really matter anymore. Rivas never tagged Rowand after he slid past 2nd. Rowand should have been safe, but that's a very tough call for the umpire to have to watch both the tag and the hand on the base. Just my view on the call.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 02:02 AM) Row looked out to me, good try though How? When Rivas touched him, Rowand was clearly on the base. Problem is that the umpire wasn't looking to see if Rowand was on the base, he just assumed he had already overslid 2nd base.

Great catch by Hunter there. Definitely made up for his misplay earlier.

Bad call, Rowand was on the base when he was tagged by the umpire. 3 straight games now in which we got f'd over by a base umpire.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 01:52 AM) You know, it's not like most of the time bringing in a reliever will necessarily stop a run from being scored... I totally agree with that, but when a hitter is seeing a pitcher for the 4th time in a game, and the pitcher is tiring, then it's usually a better bet to go to the fresh pitcher who the batter hasn't seen that game. It just seemed like last year, the starting pitcher for the Sox always seemed to give up a hit to his last batter in a big situation.

WOW! Amazing job by Hernandez to get out of these jams. Why can't Timo use two hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 01:51 AM) I think someone has a "gut feeling" that Hernandez will not implode on us Lets hope it's not another case where Ozzie's one batter too late......again.

Hernandez throwing junk up to the plate again. He's not using his fastball to set up his other pitches, and the Twins are just sitting on the slow stuff. I'd like to see Politte brought in here.

I don't like how Hernandez threw 2 eephus pitches to Jones this game.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 01:45 AM) I'm impressed by his hitting, but have I missed any talk about how slow Iguchi looks?.. yeah, his range at 2nd base isn't great.

Hey, what do you know!!! Timo playing deep allowed him to catch that liner by Hunter.

Well, good thing it was hit to LF! Crede almost really screwed that play up there.

Ok, nicely done by Uribe. Crede's going to have a tough time scoring on a flyball here if it's not deep.

With Uribe's stroke to RF, I would much rather he swing away here.

Great base running by A.J. there, and Crede continues to smoke the ball.

Excellent job by Hernandez there. Would anyone else have been pissed off if Mauer got a hit in that at-bat?

Walk Mauer here! No reason to pitch to him.

Besides Buehrle, our pitchers do a terrible job at holding on runners. It's ironic, because it seems like every pitcher does a great job at holding on our runners.

QUOTE(keninem @ Apr 20, 2005 -> 01:20 AM) 8 balls, 40 strikes...Radke's control is insane. And our inability to make solid contact is frightening.

Wow, both pitchers getting away with some bad stuff tonight!

I've been pondering this for a while now, but why do we always play our 3b so deep against Ford? He probably has 10 infield hits against us with either bunts to 3b or little dribblers. That was a great bunt, but if Crede was playing closer, it would have made him swing away likely.

Are we able to score without a homer?

Iguchi has a great swing on the slow stuff. He just glides it into the outfield.

One more thing about Timo. He might be a good pinch-hitter, but Ozzie plays Timo way too much. How often do you see other solid PH like D. Hansen and M. Sweeney start? Very, very rarely. The reason for that is because those type of players best help contribute to the team by coming up to bat in big situations, and not having to play 9 innings to show their liabilities.