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Entries from Empyreal Environs tagged with “White Sox”

Mismatched Socks

They take their baseball seriously in Chicago. They are also unfailingly loyal. The only thing that would be worse is if he had some Cubbies gear, too. In the first frame with two runners on Adam Dunn accomplished the true outcome that gave his team a 3-0 lead. The White Sox never trailed. Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s two-run four-bagger brought the visitors within three runs. Matt Thornton allowed David Ortiz and Mike Napoli to reach on walks in the seventh. Daniel Nava flied out to right and Ortiz tagged up. With runners at the corners Will Middlebrooks lofted to the ball to left field where Dayan Viciedo mistimed his leap. The double allowed Ortiz and Napoli to score. Pale Hose relievers Jesse Crain and Addison Reed fared better than Thornton, however, shutting down the visitors for final two frames. Comparing Boston and Chicago’s current sports resumes, the Bruins are ahead 2-0 in hockey while the Blackhawks are down 2-1. The Bulls advanced past the first round of the NBA finals, unlike the Celtics, but lost to the Heat 4-1. Neither city’s MLS teams are doing well. Both of Chicago’s MLB franchises are under .500 but the Red Sox are vying for first...

Power Outage

Since Jon Lester fell far short of tallying his 20th win of the season the story of the night was the power outage in the bottom of the sixth. Commonwealth Edison had an outage in the neighborhood, which caused a 21-minute delay in play. Red Sox would have preferred the lights go out in the bottom half of the fourth. Lester struggled to maintain the 2-2 tie but allowed a double to Alejandro De Aza and bases on balls to Juan Pierre and Alexei Ramirez to load the bases for Paul Konerko. The Red Sox southpaw was far from lights out: his 95-mile an hour fastball was right down the middle of the plate and bottom of the letters high. It was Konerko’s ninth career grand slam. Marco Scutaro, Mike Lowell, and Bill Hall provided some power, but only enough to cue the organ. While Lester didn’t reach his milestone of 20 victories, Victor Martinez clouted his 20th home run in the third inning. The Red Sox didn’t produce a playoff berth but celebrated a bevy of births. Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz both welcomed their firstborns, Daisuke Matsuzaka’s wife Tomoyo had their third child, and now Adrian Beltre has...

Past Is Not Prologue

The most enjoyable part of this game was David Ortiz tossing water and ice at A.J. Pierzynski when the White Sox backstop drifted towards the opposing dugout to glove Adrian Beltre’s pop foul in the second inning. Coming in second place was Ozzie Guillen teasing Ortiz on the designated hitter’s failed bunt attempt in the same frame by pretending he was furiously propelling a wheelchair. Instead of the game I turned to WGBH to watch the bottom half of Ken Burns’s “Tenth Inning.” The increasingly apparent use of steroids was discussed, replete with Bob Costas patting himself on the back for being the bellwether amongst the media in exposing the scandal. But we all dug the longball. Fans ignored the progressively more grotesque physiques of the players and focused instead on the gargantuan home runs leaping off the bats of the Mark McGwires, the Sammy Sosas, the Barry Bondses of the world. Burns also turned a loving look back to 2003 and 2004. I was shocked that I could still be angered by the sight of Grady Little trotting out to the mound to visit Pedro Martinez. Even if Martinez said, “If you take me out of the game right...

Wake Me Up When October Ends

As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost Wake me up, when September ends Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last Wake me up, when September ends — Green Day, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”Hearing a journeyman like Felipe Lopez talk about how it’s good to come to a team that isn’t going anywhere rather than being a part of a club that is accomplishing something is rather disheartening. The infielder knows that he is a means to an ends: the Red Sox would receive a compensatory pick in the 2011 draft if he signs as a free agent for another team since he is likely a Type B player. He might feel used, but at least there is some use for the player who is reported to be a poor teammate. Before Daniel Nava awkwardly dove and missed Dayan Viciedo’s liner the Red Sox were mercifully eliminated by the Rays’ and Yankees’ victories. Boston’s ravaged squad can hold its head high as the team that held on the longest; they just need a neck brace to do so. Rich Hill notched his first career hold last night, and he didn’t back into the...

Pair of Worn Out Sox

In early September the White Sox came to Fenway and swept the Red Sox in a three-game series. The Southsiders had just claimed Manny Ramirez off waivers to help them in their push to clinch the wild card. By the time Ozzie Guillen and his squad departed Boston for Detroit they passed by the Red Sox for the wild card. Since then both teams have flagged in the race for the postseason. Ramirez wasn’t the catalyst Kenny Williams hoped for. In 66 at bats with the White Sox Ramirez has displayed poor power (one double, one home run, .318 slugging percentage) but has reached base reasonably well (.410 on-base percentage). Clay Buchholz seems to have selected Tom Brady as his role model. Marry a blond model? Check. Tousled hairstyle? Check. Three championships? Almost there.Game 156: September 27, 2010Red Sox 87-696W: Clay Buchholz (17-7)2B: Adrian Beltre – 2 (48), David Ortiz (36), Marco Scutaro – 2 (36)White Sox 83-731L: Mark Buehrle (12-13)No extra base hits....

Ninth Circle

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.— Dante Alighieri, La Divina CommediaIn Alighieri’s Divine Comedy the ninth circle of hell is inhabited by traitors, those who betrayed others with whom they shared a relationship. There are four rounds within the circle of treachery, corresponding well to the four runs the White Sox scored in the ninth inning. Round one is named after Cain and houses those who betray their relatives. Jonathan Papelbon doesn’t play with his twin brothers Josh or Jeremy, but the baseball season is so long that teammates often consider themselves as close as brothers. Papelbon allowed Alex Rios to reach on a base on balls. Rios stole second and scored on Carlos Quentin’s double to shallow center. Antenor, a Trojan, betrayed his city to the Greeks by opening the gates of the city. His house was spared by the invasion because it was marked by a panther’s skin. Therefore ring two is called “Atenora,” a frozen waste where those breached the trust of homeland or political party are tortured. Ryan Kalish, whose parents are from Massachusetts, laid out for Ramon Castro’s bloop to center but instead it evaded him and the tying...

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Yankee although he is, Yogi Berra can turn a memorable epigram. It would be fitting that the epitome of Yankeeness synopsizes Boston’s 2010 season, a season so luckless that we should not have worked up an iota of ire about it. But we did, because they had persevered, and even excelled. They performed beyond any reasonable expectations we could have about a club so afflicted, so we believed. This is what it feels like to be a fan of the Pirates or the Royals, except for them the onset is much earlier in the season. Marco Scutaro will undergo an MRI on Tuesday to diagnose the shoulder pain he has been playing through for the past month. He was the only player to have driven in any runs in the day-night doubleheader, so of course it is he who finally succumbs to an ailment. I’m no tobacco-chewing, sunflower-seed spitting, and crotch-scratching former MLBer, but I called John Lackey’s plunking of Carlos Quentin in the fourth inning. Lackey didn’t appreciate Quentin’s triple to the triangle and may have been retaliating on behalf of Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who got bowled over by Quentin on a play at the plate. Then again, we are...

Sorry Seems to Be the Easiest Word

Manny Ramirez dominated the headlines not because of what he did on the field (a decent 2-for-4 showing but no extra base hits or runs batted in) but because of what he said. Ramirez apologized for his behavior in 2008. “Everything was my fault, but you have to be a real man to realize when you do wrong,” he told reporters. “It was my fault, right. I already passed that stage. I’m happy. I’m on a new team.” A real man wouldn’t shove an elderly man. So what about Pedro Martinez playing matador to the charging Don Zimmer you might ask. That doesn’t count; Zimmer is an elderly gerbil. A real man wouldn’t inject himself with female fertility hormone as part of a steroid regime. A real man wouldn’t wait two years to admit that he was wrong. How genuine is his contrition in light of the fact that he is a free agent next season and has to buff up his tarnished reputation? The only success the Red Sox had was in the execution of the “fake to third” ploy. Of all players Omar Vizquel was lured off of third base when Clay Buchholz feinted a throw in his...

Bleached

Game 137: September 7, 2009 Red Sox1L: Josh Beckett (14-6)79-58, 1 game losing streak White Sox5W: Mark Buehrle (12-7)H: Tony Pena (10)69-70, 1 game winning streak Highlights: One inning proved to be Beckett’s undoing. It started in the third with Jayson Nix standing stock-still when a dodgeable curveball hit him squarely. Home plate umpire Mark Carlson didn’t bother to call Nix on it and the third baseman took his base. With Jayson Nix on first Scott Podsednik continued to rake against Red Sox hurlers; his single up the middle was his seventh hit of the series. The pair of baserunners advanced on Alexei Ramirez’s sacrifice bunt. Dustin Pedroia, who was covering first, might have preferred that Kevin Youkilis fielded it rather than Josh Beckett, who fired a seed to beat the speedy shortstop.A.J. Pierzynski, he of the frosted coiffure, grounded out to short to plate Nix and tie the game. Beckett’s frustration seemed to get the better of him at this point: he walked Jermaine Dye on four pitches and broke off a curve that bounded past Jason Varitek far enough so that even Dye could advance a base.Mark Kotsay exacted revenged against his former team in the form of...

Crucial

Game 136: September 6, 2009 Red Sox6W: Jon Lester (12-7)H: Billy Wagner (2)H: Daniel Bard (9)79-57, 1 game winning streak White Sox1L: John Danks (12-9)68-70, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Lester notched his 200th strikeout against Alex Ramirez. The southpaw’s season thus far ranks 16th in ERA+ amongst left-handed Red Sox starters. Where would this team be without Victor Martinez? While his three-run roundtripper in the ninth would prove superfluous, his presence in the lineup is anything but. Acquiring a switch-hitting middle-of-the-order bat who can play both catcher and first has given Terry Francona tremendous flexibility.Francona made an odd lineup decision, however. With tough southpaw John Danks on the mound he opted to keep David Ortiz as designated hitter rather than swap in Mike Lowell. The White Sox rotation features back-to-back premier lefties and carbon-copying the lineup card is anathema to Francona since he makes it a point to give his players days off, particularly near the end the season. So we had yet another strange September batting order.It clicked in the the fourth. Mike Lowell homered with Jason Bay on base. Bay singled in the next inning to drive in Jacoby Ellsbury.On the other side of the ball Dustin...

Carved

Game 135: September 5, 2009 Red Sox1L: Tim Wakefield (11-4)78-57, 2 game losing streak White Sox5W: Gavin Floyd (11-9)68-69, 4 game winning streak Highlights: Apparently in the White Sox clubhouse if you pitch eight or more innings you get shaving cream pie shoved in your face. If the same happened on the Red Sox Josh Beckett would have five, Jon Lester and Wakefield three a piece, and Brad Penny and Clay Buchholz one each. Oh wait, Penny’s came when he got demoted to the National League. Daisuke Matsuzaka and John Smoltz have been lucky to reach eight innings over two starts. The given name Gavin is derived from Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and one of the knights of the Round Table. One aspect of Gawain’s character is that he is strongest during the day but as night approaches his power wanes. Floyd’s day-night splits show that the same is true for him, but in general pitchers have better statistics in the day (National League and American League data here; on the older side but still interesting).Tim Wakefield made his first start since August 26. His first inning was Paul Byrd-like but he finished with five solid innings of shutout baseball.To...

Flown

Game 134: September 4, 2009 Red Sox2L: Paul Byrd (1-1)78-56, 1 game losing streak White Sox12W: Freddy Garcia (1-2)67-69, 3 game winning streak Highlights: Paul Byrd would have gone eight shutout innings in the National League. I once had a pitchOr should I say, it once had meIt hasn’t much zoomBut isn’t it good, missing the wood?They asked me to playAnd they asked if the pitch had some hairSo I pitched off the moundAnd they hit a few flaresI sat on a bench, biding my timeEarning a dimeI pitched for just twoAnd then they saidIt’s time for bedThey told me to workIn the video room to get past these gaffesI told them I wouldAnd crawled off to avoid the media’s wrathAnd when I awoke I was aloneThis Byrd had flownCan I put out the fire?It would be good, if I just could...

Greenery

Game 127: August 27, 2009 White Sox9W: John Danks (12-8)64-64, 1 game winning streak Red Sox5L: Junichi Tazawa (2-3)73-54, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Tazawa showed the absent-minded side of the tanuki by forgetting how to pitch effectively. It was a typical greenhorn sequence of pitching starts, on one week and off the next. In between innings Tazawa was shown in the dugout with a rather elaborate shoulder gadget; if anything it just concentrated suckage around his arm. The infield didn’t do Junichi Tazawa any favors. In the third, Jayson Nix, who has replaced Frank Catalanotto as the Inconsequential Player Who Does Inexplicably Well Against the Red Sox, sprayed a line drive to left. Mike Lowell cut off the ball to initiate the rundown of Nix between first and second. Kevin Youkilis threw a smidgen high to Dustin Pedroia (insert short joke here). Pedroia dropped the ball, chased it down, but had no play at first because neither Tazawa nor Victor Martinez covered the sack. Alexei Ramirez crossed the plate unhindered for the eighth run of the game.With the Red Sox starter unable to go more than four innings and many bullpen arms unavailable, Nick Green was called on to...

Retro

Game 126: August 26, 2009 White Sox2L: Tony Pena (6-5)63-64, 4 game losing streak Red Sox3BS: Ramon Ramirez (3)W: Daniel Bard (1-1)73-53, 3 game winning streak Highlights: Why do I prefer manual transmission to automatic? So I can be clutch like David Ortiz. Tag Team back again Check it, wreck it, let’s begin Party on party people let me hear some noise DC’s in the house jump jump and rejoice There’s a party over here, a party over there Wave your hands in the air Shake your derriere These three words mean you’re gettin’ busy Whoomp, there it isHit me!David Ortiz scored the first and last runs of the game. His first home run boomeranged off the second row Monster seats’ table to the feet of fans in the first row. In the dugout he exchanged an elaborate handshake with Victor Martinez. So reminiscent of 2004, with Ortiz playing himself and Martinez assuming the role of Orlando Cabrera.Although not as showy as Cabrera, Alex Gonzalez has been a revelation at short. He mans shortstop near flawlessly; he vacuums up ground balls, turns twin killings, and tosses to first with immaculate aim. Any contribution he brings to the other side of...

Substitutes

Game 125: August 25, 2009 White Sox3BS: Matt Thornton (5)L: Scott Linebrink (3-6)63-63, 3 game losing streak Red Sox6W: Manny Delcarmen (5-2)S: Jonathan Papelbon (30)72-53, 2 game winning streak Highlights: Jacoby Ellsbury broke the single-season franchise record for steals in the bottom of the first. He had just shot a ground-rule double into the Red Sox bullpen and was chomping at the bit to swipe third. A.J. Pierzynski bobbled Freddy Garcia’s first pitch to Dustin Pedroia and didn’t even try to catch the speedy center fielder. Ellsbury can drive 55, and more. Dustin Pedroia poked the ball to Paul Konerko in his first at bat, plating Jacoby Ellsbury for a quick score.Nine-hole hitter Jayson Nix improbably tied the game in the third with a longball into the Monster seats. Boston countered with J.D. Drew’s two-out double to the left-center gap, demonstrating that he doesn’t have to bat from the eighth spot to make an impact. From the three-hole Drew went 1-for-3 and walked twice. Kevin Youkilis roped a single to left to drive in Drew for the lead.Youkilis’s comments about playing in Boston sparked some controversy, but keep in mind that Dan Shaugnessy penned this piece. How it must gall...

Mistakes

Game 124: August 24, 2009 White Sox8L: Jose Contreras (5-12)63-62, 2 game losing streak Red Sox12W: Ramon Ramirez (7-3)H: Hideki Okajima (22)H: Daniel Bard (7)71-53, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Contreras made an error in the bottom of the third, an error bigger than “Sox Appeal,” “Pocket Money,” and the dance sequence opening the NESN pregame show for Friday’s match-up against the Yankees. Paul Konerko stooped to field David Ortiz’s grounder but for some reason Jose Contreras thought he should chase down the ball. Perhaps he wanted to make amends for hitting Kevin Youkilis with a pitch to jam the bases. The pitcher ended up straddling the first base line without the ball in his glove. Ortiz scampered across the bag safe, Alex Gonzalez scored, and the bases reloaded. Konerko’s exasperation matched that of Jose Oquendo, the third base coach of the Cardinals who attempted to direct Jeff Suppan’s baserunning.Jason Bay walked on five pitches, pushing across another run and bringing his team within a run. Instead of pitching to Mike Lowell, Contreras might have been better off throwing the ball into the crowd. Lowell wouldn’t get past second base even if the starter hurled the sphere into the netting...

Darned

Game 136: August 31, 2008 White Sox 4 W: Gavin Floyd (15-6)H: Matt Thornton (16)H: Octavio Dotel (20)S: Bobby Jenks (27) 77-59, 1 game winning streak Red Sox 2 L: Tim Wakefield (8-9) 79-57, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Completing a series sweep is taxing for the Red Sox (unless it is the World Series). Runs were scarce for the Red Sox on Sunday. Even the hot bat wielded by Dustin Pedroia cooled off; his streak of reaching base safely ended at 11 in the third inning when he tapped back to Floyd. Pedroia represented the go-ahead run in the bottom of the ninth. Boston scraped back one run on Jed Lowrie’s ground out, and two men were poised to score with the 2007 Rookie of the Year in the box. It would have been a storybook ending to a memorable series, but not every wish over the course of 162 games can be realized.Tim Wakefield allowed two runs in the first inning on Jim Thome’s homer. The shot wasn’t one of Thome’s typical bombs to the bleachers or bullpen; instead, this one curved around Pesky’s Pole like a tetherball. Carlos Quentin had doubled to the left field corner...

Peewee

Game 135: August 30, 2008 White Sox 2 L: Mark Buehrle (11-11) 76-59, 3 game losing streak Red Sox 8 W: Michael Bowden (1-0) 79-56, 2 game winning streak Highlights: The left field pavilion seats are among the best seats under $100 in the park. I highly recommend snagging tickets in this section if they are available. Last night the weather was perfect despite the warnings of passing showers or even thunderstorms. The late August game had a perfect combination of summer conditions and playoff implications. Both Sox teams have their division championships within reach and, if they are not successful in that, the wild card would be their only other option.Into this turbulent playoff picture entered Michael Bowden, a 21-year old pitcher whom the Red Sox drafted out of high school in 2005. That draft has already yielded Clay Buchholz, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Jed Lowrie (as well as Craig Hansen, who was packaged with Brandon Moss to bring Jason Bay to Boston). Bowden was the 47th overall pick was compensation for losing Derek Lowe to free agency.I sat next to a fan who was scoring the game and had an iPhone through which he accessed SoSH and other...

Keystone Pop

When I arrived at Fenway I passed by a television showing the pre-game show and learned that Dustin Pedroia would be batting fourth. I was already excited to be there in person for Michael Bowden’s debut, but just imagining what Pedroia must be saying (and what his teammates were saying to him) in the clubhouse when the lineup card was posted amused me all evening. I sat in the left field pavilion, or in marketing parlance the Coca Cola Corner. I was in the second row in the last section, under the “o” in “Cola.” These seats are fabulous; they seem less windy than the right field pavilion and the sight line to home plate is better. Of course, any fly balls that are close to the foul line cannot be seen, but crowd reaction is just a good a method to discover the outcome of such plays as any. One way to get to the seats is to make as if you are heading to the Monster Seats but make a u-turn. You can catch a glimpse of the glistening halls to the private suites as you make your way through walkways bounded by seemingly ancient brick walls. The...

Gaiyu [外野]

Game 134: August 29, 2008 White Sox 0 L: Javier Vazquez (10-12) 76-58, 2 game losing streak Red Sox 8 W: Daisuke Matsuzaka (16-2) 78-56, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Seven Red Sox players (Jason Varitek, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz, Mark Kotsay, Alex Cora, Jason Bay, and Kevin Youkilis) got balls to fall in the gaiya (outfield); what they lacked in home runs they made up for in timely shots with runners on base. There were two outstanding plays by gaiyashū (outfielders): Jacoby Ellsbury made a diving snare of Orlando Cabrera’s fly ball to the fringe of the turf at the entry to the triangle. Ellsbury was a last-minute addition to the lineup because of Coco Crisp’s illness and the gem was the first pitch of the first at bat of the game. Long and lean Jermaine Dye similarly robbed Jed Lowrie in the bottom of the second. The ball was slicing towards the stands near the curve in the right field fence and Dye sprung up like a cornerback intercepting a Hail Mary. If one can improve as a pitcher even though he leads his team’s rotation in wins, ERA, strikeouts per nine innings, hits per nine innings,...


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