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Originally Posted by cknox
Fifteen straight pitches out of the zone since this inning started, twelve of them thrown by the man on the mound. That's sad enough that I'm not even going to be able to laugh when we lose this game.
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I can laugh after the outcome of the at-bat, though.
Gallo underhands a ball to finally ring up a strike, then throws one with a little more gusto on it.
Durham takes a cut, figuring why the hell not with the bags full and no one out, and he strikes a hard bouncing ball. One with eyes.
Eyes staring right at
Enrique Wilson. One of those quirks of baseball -- a good swing, solid contact -- and two outs for your trouble.
Fine by me.
Kiko Calero comes on to get out of the inning, needing just three pitches to strand two more
Cleveland runners. And I can't help but be a little more satisfied that it's
Joe Crede making that final out of the eighth inning, hitting a weak little pop fly to shallow center.
Aneudi Cuevas and
Magglio Ordonez get hits and steal bases and for all I know, find a cure for all that ails the human heart before there's even two outs in the bottom of the eighth, and
Frank Catalanotto brings 'em both home with a pinch-hit base knock. "Mercurial
Kiko"
Calero is perfect in the ninth, and, if only for a day, we are the
fourth-place
Chicago White Sox.
CLE 1 CHW 4
WP: J. Garland (1-2) - 7 IP, 7 H, 1 R
LP: C.C. Sabathia (1-2) - 6 IP, 5 H, 2 R
S: K. Calero (1) - nine and a third scoreless this year
Wheeeee! This winning stuff is fun!!!