The Cleveland Indians sure made things interseting in the bottom of the ninth inning but the Chicago White Sox held on to beat the the Indians by the score of 6-5.  The game tying run was on third base and the game winning run on second base for the Indians with one out before Bobby Jenks was finally able to get the last two outs of the game for the White Sox.

Jenks picked up his 14th save in the game.  Starting pitcher Gavin Floyd got the win to improve his record to 5-3.  Floyd threw six inning and gave up eight hits and five runs.  Floyd also had seven strikeouts in the game.

Octavio Dotel and Scott Linebrink both tossed scoreless innings of relief after Floyd left the game.

Jermaine Dye hit his ninth home run of the season in the fourth inning for the White Sox.  Carlos Quentin once again led the White Sox at the plate however with three rbi in the game.  A.J. Pierzynski had the other two rbi for the White Sox.

The White Sox will now start up a series with the Tampa Bay Rays.  The Rays have been playing some good baseball so the White Sox are going to really have to come to play.

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Jim Thome singled in A.J. Pierzynski for the go ahead run in the top of the ninth inning as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 to salvage a sweep in the series.  Thome delivered a single off of Angels closer Francisco Rodriquez.  Maybe this will get Thome out his slump that he has been in lately.

Three other White Sox batters had a rbi in the game besides Thome.  Orlando Cabrera, Juan Uribe, and Pierzynski all had a rbi at the plate.

Octavio Dotel ended up getting the win which improved his record to 2-2 on the season and Bobby Jenks recorded the save which was his eighth. Starting pitcher Javier Vazquez tossed 6 2/3 innings while allowing nine hits and three runs.

The White Sox will now begin a series with the San Francisco Giants.  White Sox Blog

The Chicago White Sox offense was shut down by Jered Weaver and the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.  The White Sox only had one hit of Weaver in seven innings of action, and then got a couple of hits off the Angeles bullpen but it wasn’t enough as the White Sox lost 2-0.

Carlos Quentin, A.J. Pierzynski, and Joe Crede were the only White Sox players to record a hit in the game.

John Danks pitched 6 1/3 innings while giving up seven hits and no runs.  Octavio Dotel took the loss as he pitched 2/3 of an inning and gave up the first run of the game in the eighth inning on a sac fly.  Matt Thornton then came into the game and gave up one more run on a single in the eighth inning.

One bad inning on the mound for Dotel and Thornton, combined with only three hits for the White Sox and you see why the Sox lost to the Angels.  White Sox Blog hopes the Sox can turn things around and get a win on Wednesday!

Mark Buehrle was roughed up for ten hits and eight runs (six earned) on Monday night as the Chicago White Sox lost to the Los Angeles Angels by the score of 10-7.  Buehrle was only able to throw 5 2/3 innings before having to be taken out of the ballgame.  Buehrle is now 1-5 on the season.

Ehren Wassermann, Boone Logan, Octavio Dotel, and Matt Thornton all seen action out of the bullpen for the White Sox.  The bullpen did not allow a run to cross the plate, as they stopped the bleeding.  To bad they were already in a huge hole to try to come back from.

At the plate Juan Uribe and Joe Crede both had two rbi in the game.   Pablo Ozuna, A.J. Pierzynski, and Alexei Ramirez all had one rbi each to finish out the game.  Orlando Cabrera had a terrible game as he left seven guys on base and went 1-5.

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Joe Crede delivered the game winning hit that gave the Chicago White Sox a 7-6 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.  Crede singled to center field off Joba Chamberlain in the bottom of the ninth inning that scored Carlos Quentin from second base.

Besides Crede’s one RBI, six other White Sox hitters contributed with an RBI each.  Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Jermaine Dye, A.J. Pierzynski, Alexei Ramirez, and Quentin all had a RBI in the game.  Thome’s RBI came on a solo home run in the fifth inning.

Bobby Jenks picked up the win for the White Sox as he recorded the final two outs in the ninth inning.  Gavin Floyd had started for the White Sox and pitched six innings as he gave up five hits and five runs.  Floyd struckout four batters but also walked four batters.  Matt Thornton was the only White Sox relief pitcher to give up a run in the game.

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The Chicago White Sox were leading the New York Yankees heading into the seventh inning but Jose Contreras ran into trouble and the Yankees score four runs on a grand slam and eventually went onto beat the White Sox 9-5.  The White Sox gave up three home runs in the game as the pitchers couldn’t keep the ball in the park.

Contreras pitched 6.1 innings as he gave up seven hits and four earned runs.  He was cruising until that seventh inning.  Boone Logan, Octavio Dotel, and Matt Thornton let another four runs cross the plate as they pitched in relief of Contreras.

Juan Uribe had two RBI for the White Sox.  A.J. Pierzynski, Paul Konerko, and Joe Crede all had one RBI each as well.  Pierzynski’s RBI came off a solo home run in the ninth inning.

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The Chicago White Sox shut out the Tampa Bay Rays 6-0 on Sunday putting Chicago at 11-7 for the season.  Chicago got the scoring off to an early start with runs in the first inning and didn’t let up the offense or defense throughout the entire game to hold Tampa Bay to no runs and only four hits.

The Chicago White Sox started John Danks to get things rolling and kept him in for seven full innings.  Boone Logan was brought in to close the game giving up only 1 hit in the final two innings of the game.

Jim Thome got his fifth home run of the season and his fourth double also putting him up to 16 RBIs.  But he wasn’t the only White Sox batter driving in runs.  Jermaine Dye got his first triple of the season and picked up an RBI as well.  A.J. Pierzynski picked up an RBI in the game too.

With the White Sox moving on to take on the Yankees on Tuesday at home.  Will they be able to keep the hits coming?

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A.J. Pierzynski had a great day on Friday for the Chicago White Sox has he finished the day with five RBI’s.  PIerzynski had a two run double in the 3rd inning and a three run homer in the 7th inning.  The White Sox improved their record to 2-2 with the win over the Tigers.

Carlos Quentin connected for a two run homerun and Jermaine Dye chippin in with a RBI of his own as well.

Boone Logan picked up the win while Bobby Jenks picked up the save.  It was Jenks second save of the season.