The Morning After: Sox Sweep Seattle

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jul 30, 2010 3:00PM

The White Sox always seem to have one streak or another going on. Last night, the Sox downed Seattle 9-5 to extend their current winning streak to four games and extended their current home win streak to 11 games. Down 2-0 in the second, a two-run double by Juan Pierre tied the game at 2-2 and the Sox added two more for a 4-2 lead. Ramon Castro then did a little flexing, hitting solo homers in the fourth and sixth innings. Seattle did their best to keep up with the Sox and had cut the lead to 7-5 when Paul Konerko and Carlos Quentin - the power core of this year's Sox squad - delivered back-to-back homers to lead off the seventh and increase the Sox' cushion. Freddy Garcia gave up three runs over six innings to earn his 10th win of the year. The Sox now sit at 57-44, 13 games over .500, a far cry from where they were less than two months ago (ex: they were 9 games under .500 at 24-33 on June 8). While Detroit has sunk to six games back in thanks to a losing streak, the Minnesota Twins are on their own hot streak and keeping pace with the Sox, sitting just 1.5 games back. Things will only heat up in the first few weeks of August when the Sox will play Detroit seven times and Minnesota six times. But, first, the Sox welcome Oakland to town for a weekend series starting tonight (7:10 p.m., CSN).