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Chicagoist wants to know where exactly the White Sox offense has been. Did they leave it down in Arizona? Because for a team to hold an opponent to one hit yet lose the game is quite an impressive feat! In fact, only 10 times in the past 15 seasons have teams with fewer than two hits won a game.
The White Sox dropped a 2-1 game Sunday to the Cleveland Indians, a day after scoring no runs on Saturday. Indians' ace C.C. Sabathia shut down the Sox hitters, allowing just five hits and one run while striking out 10 over eight innings.
Ten games into the season, the White Sox are 11th in the American League in runs scored at just 3.7 runs/game average. The offense was supposed to be the team's strength, but half of the regulars have batting averages hovering around the Mendoza Line, and the power numbers aren't what we expected yet either. Maybe it's too soon to panic, though, having faced Sabathia twice and Johan Santana already in just 10 games.
After a ugly 2006, the White Sox starting pitching has actually been fairly good since Jose Contreras' opening-day debacle. Javier Vasquez had looked strong so far. Even rookie John Denks has pitched well — a 3.97 ERA and 10 strikeouts with only three walks — in spite of a 0-2 record so far. The Sox have provided the rookie literally zero run support in his two starts.
Photo via Reuters/Ron Kuntz.
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MendozaaaaAAAAA!!
So long as the pitching looks good, I'm not too worried. The hitting will come around eventually once the weather warms up. Danks looks like a quality #5 starter and Vasquez is pitching well (which he should, given how much we're paying him!), both encouraging signs. I never thought I'd say this after a 5-6 start, and just as a White Sox fan in general, but I'm feeling pretty optimistic about this season so far.
mendoza vaguely rhymes with PECOTA.
PECOTA predicted a rather subpar finish for the sox this year, as their core of big hitters grows ever older.
I kinda agree with andy. But I'm going with the theory that hitting all over baseball is down because of the cold, cold weather [ixnay on the grady sizemore home run barrage and the 14-run performance by the mariners yesterday]. Though it is kinda crappy that we get a 1-hit performance out of someone and the batters can't even give him one run. It's early, it's early, the bats will always come around. I'd be more worried if the pitching was crap from the start.
Yeah, like others said I'd rather see us pitching well and struggling to hit than the other way around. However, Joe Crede's back in pre-August 05 pop-up-everything-I-see mode. That's a little disconcerting. That and Erstad sucks, and will continue to suck the rest of the year. Why he or Podsednik are given free passes into the starting lineup is beyond me.
I know it's April, but it looks like another long season of baseball in Chicago.
On the plus side, A-Rod totally fell to me at fifth in my fantasy draft, so I got that going for me. Which is nice.