kwolf68 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Sox win...back to the Blackhawks game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 My god, that was a really crappy game. But a win's a win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn12 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Finally... nothing is easy in the Crappo Dome... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox It To Em Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Holy balls, what a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyKongerko Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Haha worst win ever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scenario Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 09:14 PM) Are you SERIOUSLY going to walk Gross and have to face Pena with the bases loaded?? Nope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamTell Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 whew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodAsGould Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 what a frustrating game, but winnnner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 02:14 AM) I'd almost rather face Pena. I was thinking the same, but oh well!!! Great managing by Ozzie tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeFabregas Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 09:14 PM) Deep breath. Special thanks to brian Anderson, Chris Getz, and Joshua Fields Forever for that last run. Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanne Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Jesus...nothing easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox It To Em Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Toronto pounding the Twins, awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthsideDon48 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 08:11 PM) Is it just me, or is a 9th inning with Bobby never a breeze anymore? It must be the beard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scenario Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 09:15 PM) My god, that was a really crappy game. But a win's a win. Nothing crappy about a low scoring win. Our pitching only gave up 5 hits and struck out 10? I'll take games like that any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (scenario @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:17 PM) Nothing crappy about a low scoring win. Our pitching only gave up 5 hits and struck out 10? I'll take games like that any day. Our hitting got 14 hits and 2 walks and scored 3 runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigHurt Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 That was one of the most tension-filled Bottom-of-the-9th I've ever watched. Right after the game, my dad yells, "HEY! Field of Dreams is on!" I"m like, "Are you f***ing serious?! I've had ENOUGH baseball for one day!" LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 QUOTE (DonkeyKongerko @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:15 PM) Haha worst win ever? There have been worse. Our pitching was more than good enough to win this game. To me, worst win ever is like a win where we give up 8 runs, 6 of them unearned, and yet somehow still win 10-8 with at least 5 of our runs unearned and a few umpiring mistakes while we're at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I find it surprising there was so much negativity in the Associated Press article about our victory tonight. The Rays are the AL champs and they had as frustrating a night as the Sox hitters did. By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Ozzie Guillen doesn’t know what it is about Tropicana Field. His Chicago White Sox just don’t seem to be able to score a lot of runs in the domed stadium. Even on a night when they had 14 hits, including Jermaine Dye’s two-run homer that highlighted a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. “It’s hard to believe,” Guillen said Thursday night, noting the problems his team had here last season, including a pair of losses to the AL champions in the opening round of the playoffs. “We come in here and get hits, and you only score three runs. ... It’s kind of like: ’There we go again.’ It’s something about this ballpark, I guess.” John Danks (1-0) pitched six strong innings, limiting the Rays to two hits and had a shutout until Carlos Pena homered with one out in the sixth. Dioner Navarro had the other hit off the left-hander, a two-out single in the second inning. Dye, who was 3-for-5, homered off Jeff Niemann (0-2) in the second. The White Sox wasted several opportunities to break the game open against the right-hander, including the sixth, when they loaded the bases with one out and failed to score. Chicago went 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position, and only one of the hits — Josh Field’s infield single in the ninth — produced a run for a 3-1 lead. The Rays, who have lost three straight, struggled in key situations, too. They were 0-for-8 against Danks and relievers Octavio Dotel and Matt Thornton, who escaped jams in the seventh and eighth with the tying run on second base. “Every run is important in this ballpark. That team led the league in comeback wins last year, and you can see why,” Guillen said. “They get guys on bases. They steal bases. They make a lot of things happen.” Though not lately. Tampa Bay loaded the bases in the ninth against closer Bobby Jenks on a single, an error and a walk. Carl Crawford grounded into a force play, driving in a run before Jenks got his third save when Gabe Gross grounded to first. “We’re just not on top of our game offensively,” said Rays manager Joe Maddon, who has watched his team struggle since having 17 hits in consecutive games and scoring 26 runs in victories Sunday and Monday over Baltimore and the New York Yankees. Danks walked four and struck out eight and improved to 4-1 against the Rays, with all four of the victories coming at Tropicana Field. Pena’s homer, the slugger’s fourth in five days, is the only run Danks has allowed in 12 innings this season. Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon was ejected during the sixth inning for arguing an umpire’s decision. Maddon contended that Dye hit a grounder fair to third base rather than fouled the ball off his foot. The player hopped and limped out of the batter’s box as if the ball hit his foot before rolling up the third base line, where Willy Aybar fielded it and threw to first for the apparent out. Dye complained, asking plate umpire Brian Gorman to look at his left shoe. The umpire crew huddled briefly, then inspected the ball and ruled it a foul. Maddon thought he had a good argument. “You can’t use the mark on the ball as a review because some players use black bats. Furthermore, the guy was wearing gray shoes. So it was pretty difficult to get a black mark on the ball from a gray shoe,” the manager said. “And the last point I made is, none of them saw it. None of them called foul ball.” Television replays appeared to confirm the ball struck Dye’s shoe. Niemann struggled in his first start of the season last week, allowing five first-inning runs, including Melvin Mora’s grand slam, in a 6-0 loss at Baltimore. He got off to a better start Thursday night, fanning two in a one-two-three first. But he walked Jim Thome leading off the second and then gave up the 301st home run of Dye’s career. A.J. Pierzynski and Alexei Ramirez singled with one out, then advanced on a wild pitch before the Sox stranded them scoring position. Niemann also worked out of tight spots in the fourth and fifth innings to keep Tampa Bay in the game. “Overall, it was a decent start, other than the one pitch,” Niemann said. “But that one pitch was enough to beat us.” Notes: White Sox 2B Chris Getz was back in the lineup after missing three games with a bruised right triceps. ... Rays 3B Evan Longoria missed his second straight game because of a death in the family. He’s expected to rejoin the team on Friday. ... Injured Rays RHP Jason Isringhausen is scheduled to pitch two innings in extended spring training Saturday, then head to Double-A Montgomery on Monday. The plan is for him to pitch a couple of times there, then head to Triple-A Durham. ... Dye’s homer was his 140th since joining the White Sox in 2005 and moved him into a tie with Ron Kittle for ninth on Chicago’s career list. ... Pena has four homers and nine RBIs in his last five games. ... Attendance was 13,803. The Rays drew 99,117 for a three-game series against the Yankees that ended Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 Game observations: - Lots of hot women - Rays still have opening week MLB logo on their field, its not opening week anymore (i figure most stadiums still have it?) - Stadium did nto have as much people as i expected it would (after being world series) but it is thursday night... - One of the best games ive ever atteneded, the whole 15 hits 3 runs thing was awesome to watch in a way. Made it SO suspenseful every inning. Overall, great game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 More notes: - It was extremely cold near end of the game when the rays were batting 6-9th. I was up by the air conditioner and noticed they seemed to change it when rays were batting. Im not one for those kind of theories to help a team win or lose, I can see it being done, but I dont put much stock into it, but was just interesting how I noticed it. - My brother and his friend were cheering for the white sox at every moment, almost to the point of obnoxious. Lol, sorry to the rays fans next to us! - The dam cowbells are worst thing in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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