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Something I've noticed with Dye is that he seems to be taking a ton of first pitch fastballs right down the plate for strikes. Then, when he gets to two strikes, he's showing no patience and swinging at sliders that are well off the plate. He's not giving himself a real good chance to have a quality at-bat.

Twins get the lead after Farnsworth gives up 2 runs in the 7th with 2 outs.

Ozzie was going to start Ozuna tomorrow anyways, but boy did he earn that start today! That squibber by Sweeney was a very tough play, and he made a perfect throw to Shingo covering. I like Ozuna as a QB better than Orton already.

Pena should have never, ever left Sisco in to face Rowand. Rowand is so much more dangerous against lhp than he is rhp.

Just amazing. How the hell did we win that game?

Great play by Pablo!

Crede actually had better swings today than he did in a lot of the games in which he had hits during the streak. I'm very encouraged.

We had some very slow players in our starting lineup today!

I say let Shingo get the first two hitters next inning, and if he's in trouble, bring in Marte to face Stairs.

Great inning by Vizcaino there. I think that's the first 1-2-3 inning of the game for Sox pitchers.

Vizcaino is in. Must mean Hermanson's back is still bothering him.

If healthy, Hermanson should come in here. If he isn't, Vizcaino might get the 8th inning.

PABLO! Stupid play by Rowand there, but a great comeback that inning.

I'd just like to say thank you for having a lefty pitch against Rowand. He's the one guy on our team who can really rake against lhp.

Rowand takes a great pitch to hit also. A lot of our guys seem in-between swinging and taking.

Dye had a great, great pitch to hit on the 2-1 there. Why does every single Sox hitter chase a bad slider when they get to 2 strikes?

Sisco coming in. I imagine Dye will hit for Gload here.

Need Konerko to launch one here. Not sure about Camp's ability to hold on runners, but Willie needs to be able to break up a double play ball.

Good looking slider by Cotts there.

QUOTE(JimH @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 08:30 PM) Not sure why Everett isn't in there today vs. Konerko at DH, nor do I understand why he let Politte pitch to Fat Matt Stairs. We won last night despite Ozzie. We're going to have to comeback in order to bail his terrible managing ass out again.

Fun fact.....Timo Perez has seen 6 pitches this entire game in his 3 at-bats. J. Dye could have done that!

QUOTE(whitesoxfan13 @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 08:28 PM) Cotts in. 2 batters too late.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) WTF Ozzie? Politte pitched close to 2 f***ing innings yesterday, and after that deep flyball from Sweeney you send him out for the 7th? I'm f***ing shocked that Guillen didn't bring in Cotts to face Stairs for the fact that it would be a lefty-lefty match-up. Terrible managing today. :headshake You never, ever see the Twins play all their reserves in one game. I really think all these games in which Ozzie seemingly tries to get everyone at-bats are going to hurt us in the end.

Why the f*** do we have Cotts warming up, but we won't bring him in to face the lefty Stairs? Politte has to be gased after the last few games.

Widger blew that inning there. I still think that this would have been a big game for the Sox confidence level that they can close out a 3 game sweep. I guess Ozzie wanted to make it as difficult as possible.