It was a blazing hot night at US Cellular Field for the White Sox against the hard hitting Texas Rangers.
AJ came up to a big ovation after being snubbed at the All Star game. He also hit well and called a great game for Chris Sale.
Kevin Youkilis hit a two run homer in the first inning to rousing calls of "Youk" from the crowd. He also made some great plays in the outfield. Here you can see his signature stance.
Want to see what the tail end of a career looks like? It looks like this... the coach coming out to talk to Roy Oswalt as he was being
absolutely shelled by the White Sox. Literally - it was worse than batting practice for him, and great for us. Bye bye Roy have a good post baseball career. Oh and we will always remember beating you as part of the Astros for the 2005 World Series.
The sign shows the crazy score. I have never seen a game with so many runs scored by the White Sox (in person). Not only that, but Sale was pretty much un-hittable on the mound, even though the White Sox portion of the innings took so long that he probably forgot that he was still pitching.
It wasn't fireworks night but the White Sox almost ran out of fireworks the way their offense was playing. Don't forget that pitching was top notch and defense was great, too.
Maybe it was only one night but I was damn glad that I picked up a 14 game package. The seats were great (all in the 100 level, different parts of the stadium, these were 12th row). Usually, the more tickets I buy before the season, the worse the Sox play, so maybe 14 is about right.
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I like the first and last pics. What's the magenta band at the bottom of the last one?
Happy Independence Day.
Thanks for the heads up. I have no idea what happened with the pictures I reloaded them and they are fine now. Maybe it is something between Picasa, Chrome and Blogger even though of course they are all part of the Google Empire.
Happy 4th!
Another great night for the Sox they won 5-4 on Youk's game winning hit in extra innings after De Aza guts out a walk and steals a base.
Youk won it again today with a go ahead solo home run. Amazing.
I am going to keep this post thread alive as long as the Sox keep winning. More great plays by Youk (defensive) and finally Jake gets some run support. Also AJ Rios and Dunn already have more RBI's than they had last year and the season isn't half over. Good save by Reed although walking the first guy with a 3 run lead is never a good plan in the 9th.
Youk wins it for us AGAIN with a 2 run homer, also a GREAT tag on idiot Bautista trying to stretch a double (should have been an error) into a triple down 2 runs in the 9th.
Well the Sox winning streak was finally broken. I will give them credit for constantly battling back when a lesser team (or last years' Sox team) would have just folded.
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