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The White Sox couldn’t keep pace with the Boston Red Sox on Monday, as they dropped game one of their road trip, 12-8. Gordon Beckham’s two-run homer gave Chicago a 4-1 advantage in the top of the third, but the lead wouldn’t last long. Jose Contreras allowed six unearned runs to score in the bottom half, but was largely responsible for all of them. With two away and a runner on first, Contreras walked two batters, hit a batter, committed a fielding error, threw a wild pitch and surrendered a three-run homer to Boston’s Mike Lowell. Chicago was able to add three runs in the fifth thanks to a big fly from Paul Konerko, but the bullpen failed to keep Boston’s bats quiet, as they tacked on two in the fourth and three in the seventh. The poor outing by Contreras will relegate him to a bullpen role, as the Chi Sox tweak the rotation in an effort to gain ground on Detroit. Game two starts at 6:10 tonight.
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Last night was the first time I could ever believe a major league pitcher was throwing a game. I've seen high school pitchers who could have done a better job. And it's unfortunate, too, that it wasted a great offensive game.
Srsly,
That should have been a win. Contreras was like a one man keystone cops side show. The worst part, is that you can see the point with him, always, where you know he's gonna lose it, just before he completely falls apart. I'm not a yell at the tv kind of 'bro-dude', but last night I was hollerin' at the tube. How embarrassing.
I'm done with Contreras, man. It's tough to say because of what he did for us in '05 through '06...but it's '09. Done.
To watch Contreras mess that up made me cringe. Konerko's body english after the error said it all.