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Wickswat and Bayne are not distinguishing themselves, to say the least. With the draft coming, their days in the organization might be numbered, particularly Wickswat. Mabee with a sub 1 ERA. Mitchell always has great games or complete duds, 2/4 and back up to .287.

Great comeback story for Santana. Pitchers rarely come back from shoulder problems and get back close to where they were before, as opposed to TJ.

Peavy Beckham with four great at-bats...shades of Brian Anderson (except we lost that game in SEA) Dunn (although he's going to strike out 250-300 times at this pace, who cares at this point?) Crain Addison DeAza and Alexei with big at-bats late after Viciedo K'ed 13-1 streak, 9 in a row, 9-1 away from our equalling our 26-5 run in 2010

The weather's supposed to be much nicer Saturday and Sunday. If they don't have 25-30,000 for both of those games, you just don't know what they can do...other than junk their dynamic pricing model. Maybe it would be worth it to add more more half-price/discount nights (Monday-Thursday) just to get the disillusioned Sox fans back to the park again. Tigers are now 6 back with two more games left against the Yankees. Kuroda/Porcello, Hughes/Verlander the pitching match-ups.

Looks like the Twins will take that Georgia kid, and Houston goes with a college pitcher. Zunino probably to the M's.

That was close. Spike the temp up by 20 degrees and that ball's probably gone, definitely in the daytime.

Olivo finally comes up with a productive at-bat for the M's tonight. Wonder if Reed's not comfortable with such a big lead in the save situation? Tendency to let up, which is dangerous.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:47 PM) I was saying earlier that when Indians/Tigers play again, I hope Indians sweep them again. I don't buy Cleveland being able to reach 90 wins. Unless by some miracle the Grady Sizemore of 2003-2007 still exists in that beaten up body of his. Hafner is out for at least 4-6 weeks, Santana hasn't been AS dangerous as 2011 (yet), Kipnis and Cabrera have been carrying that team.

Beckham looking more and more dangerous each and every game, and at-bat. Could easily have 3 hits tonight if not for the great catch by Saunders in CF. Does anyone think this would have happened with Walker and Guillen still around? We'll never know, but doubtful.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:45 PM) He was out if fielded cleanly and thrown without double-clutching The M's announcers were arguing he would have been safe anyway, but they're probably just trying to protect their own struggling ballplayer there. Listening on the internet so didn't see the play.

Beckham has an 8 game hitting streak now. Viciedo's hitting streak looks to be over. Not one of his better games, but he wasn't going to stay hot forever.

Alexei has been clutch the last month or so in those situations at least making contact and putting balls into play....probably would have been safe had he fielded it cleanly without the double-clutch.

Why isn't there a PR (Lillibridge) for Konerko? We need him to score on a sac fly...

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:35 PM) Seems to me like thornton always gives up hits when he goes back out there for another inning. It also seems like he always gives up a pop fly that somehow drops in...yeah yeah, good pitch, bad result. It just that it seems to happen almost every key situation these last two years.

Did that hit off his head or glove or the side of his face? Must have gone into a light bank.

Cue Greg rant about not winning homes games, lol. On the other hand, we've hit 3 homers at home and Beckham has 2 of them, so that should make him happy. Don't think we've lost a game this year where we had three or more homers.

Blown save #8 this season.

One more out to go. Smoak's been hot.

One more out to go. Smoak's been hot.

RH hitters are 2-28 against Crain this season.

Jesus Thornton, c'mon. Not the greatest time to implode completely. This just had the feel of one of those games when Seager hit the homer to make it 4-2. Then again, the M's are something like 2-14 in their last 16 games in Chicago.

But they love the Sox when they're playing the Cubs. C'mon Thornton, you're doing your darndest to piss this game away and cost Peavy 7-1.

That will help with Peavy's pitch count. Miguel Olivo's always good for a roll-over DP. 38 pitches, hanging in there, ERA right around 3 still.

Okay Peavy, let's not give up 5 or 7 runs this game. Beckham "almost" with 7 homers on the season. We'll take it. OPS up to 664. Respectable. Peavy 5-1 career with a 2.12 ERA against the Mariners.

CLE already up 7-0 over the Twins and Pavano. Probably can stick a fork in that game. DET now trailing Yankees 5-3. Didn't realize DeAza was tied for first in the AL in steals. Pierre-esque, plus power and not getting thrown out or picked off 35-40% of the time.