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It used to be if you wrote as much as I did after the game ended someone who wrote less beat me to it. Seems like there's less interest in doing it now. Plenty of times this season no one posted any at all so I figured I'd pick up the slack. Usually the games are so close I can't write up the summary before the game ends like I could with this one. Just had to tweak a few things when Yoan and Romy made outs in their last AB's and wait for the final score.

The White Sox started the game with back to back HR's by Elvis Andrus and Yoan Moncada and never looked back. Yoan Moncada went 5-6 with 2 HR's and 5 RBI. Romy Gonzalez was 4/5 with a 3 run HR and a double. Eloy 1-4 with a 2 run HR. 14 runs scored is the most ever in the Oakland Coliseum in 309 career games there. Sox also had 21 hits. 5 HR's equals the most amount ever in Oakland Dylan Cease pitched 6 innings with 0 runs, 3 hits, 9 K and 2 BB lowering his E.R.A to 2.06. He also got 200 K's for the 2nd time in his career . 7th pitcher in White Sox history to have multiple 200 K years. Final score 14-2. Sox gain a 1/2 game on the Indians who were idle. Twins beat the Yankees.

ROMY !! 3 run Homie. 4-4 !!!

Andy joins the party

Have a Cuban Sammiche and a beer.

Maybe Yoan should hit RH all the time now !

Engel get's the runner in from 3rd with less than 2 outs .

Great to see Romy doing so well.

Nowhere most of us would last very long at.

Eloy pulling his last couple of bombs and also pulled a double yesterday .

The Birmingham game is on the MLB app on my smart TV. I don't have any kind of subscription so it's free.

Simple pleasures are the best. Baseball having more teams in the playoffs was designed to get underdog champions .Flags fly forever. If the 1917 Sox won a World Series because there was a playoff system and they were thought of as a weaker teams there aren't any people left from around that time who would care. The beauty of baseball is a hot team can beat the best team. But 3 rounds are designed to weed out the weak but it is easier to be hot over a months worth of playoffs than a 162 game season. I'd be perfectly fine with a World Series win under most any circumstances.

I think you are being very logical in how you approach this but the manager or head coach is always the 1st to go in sports when things are disappointing. There are obviously many things wrong with the Sox organization but there really isn't a need to stick up for TLR. I know it's a white knight kind of thing to do especially in the face of some of the awful and callous things you've read . Hahn has plenty of haters too. That's why there is also a Fire Hahn thread. The best thing for your argument is that Tony doesn't come back and the Sox revert back to who they were all season with him which is pretty likely to happen. If you want the Sox to win then maybe he should not come back if the small sample size without him means anything. I know the magically healed thing without him might seem absurd but that's how these things often work in sports. It happened this season for other teams like the Phillies and Toronto. The mid level manager type on the field has a team under his direct hand that has failed . He must be the 1st to go like people were talking about Menechino being the fall guy because upper middle management will not fire themselves. The best thing for the short term health of the Sox is Tony gone. The best thing for the longer term team health is Jerry gone and that's not necessarily a given if a new owner isn't any better considering Sox fans have been waiting for an owner that knows how to grow the franchise and also how to win for a very very long time.

Ha JR doesn't care about you. He should care about a 77 yr. old "friend" doing a very stressful job and an exhausting schedule while traveling constantly.

You're absolutely right. We're hoping they all go away. The fact that TLR is already gone gives us hope the rest will follow.

Or something that could actually happen. Doe JR care about him or not? He's already in the HOF. Best thing for JR to do is let him retire with his dignity still in tact and not become part of the circus again or worse.

What's a giant Irishman head ? Please don't pull a McGuire in the stands. No one needs to see that in the flesh !

If Jerry is truly his friend he won't bring him back ever. Jerry do you want to see this ? Tony LaRussa collapses in dugout and passes away despite attempts to revive him. Jerry be a true friend and care about his health. Don't let his blood be on your hands.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention a very key contribution from Abreu who hustled to beat a DP ball, that was overturned by NY ,which would've ended the inning and then Eloy hit the HR to cut the deficit from 4-0 to 4-2. Without that bit of hustle it's likely the Sox lose. Eloy also went 3 for 4 with 3 RBI and was the hitting star of the game with the Sox scoring 9 runs on only 8 hits. No one else had more than 1 hit.

Need Eloy's bat so badly though. Sox'll have to cross that bridge when they come to it. Someone else may be injured by the time Timmy gets back. Neither Tim nor Andrus has played 2nd base so if someone does unfortunately I see it being Andrus when Andrus is playing a really good SS. Maybe they can convince Tim it'll be better for his finger to play 2nd base.

Also a very nice move by bringing Vince Velasquez in when the shadows were strong and having him throw nothing but curve balls. Soxtalk was howling about the move but it turned out to be an easy inning for V.V. Speculation is that Graveman was hurt but maybe it was just a savvy move to bring in a guy with a nice curve in the shadows when hitters can't pick up the spin.

Sox also did a nice job scoring runners from 3rd with less less 2 outs with 3 productive outs, 2 from Gavin Sheets and one from Abreu. Sheets 2nd one was the eventual game winner.

When you have Eloy he has to be the DH.

Winner's thread posted.

After K'ing the 1st 7 batters of the game the Sox knocked out Luis Castillo with a 4 run inning with the help of Seattle's defense and held on for a 9-6 win with only 3 of their runs being earned . Liam with a perfect 9th for the save ! Sox win the series taking 2 of 3 .