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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Yahoo: Buehrle’s streak ends in White Sox’s loss

Fausto Carmona allowed four hits over 8 1-3 innings and the Cleveland Indians beat the White Sox 4-1 on Wednesday night.

Buehrle (10-6) allowed a season-high 12 hits and had his streak of consecutive starts allowing three runs or less snapped at 18 games. Buehrle allowed four runs in 7 1-3 innings.

“I was on a pretty good roll,” Buehrle said. “But everything has to come to an end sometime.”
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Chicago remained 3 1/2 games behind the Tigers and dropped 1 1/2 games behind the Indians after first-place Detroit lost 6-5 to Minnesota.
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After Chicago’s 14-inning win over Cleveland on Tuesday, the White Sox needed a long outing from Buehrle and got it.

“He did a great thing for the team, going seven-plus innings when we most needed it,” Guillen said. “When you lose a game, obviously you’re not happy about it, but he did a very important thing for us. Even when he’s bad, he still helps the ballclub.”

NTNgod Posted: August 18, 2011 at 04:41 AM | 4 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. BurlyBuehrle Posted: August 18, 2011 at 01:44 PM (#3902944)

“He did a great thing for the team, going seven-plus innings when we most needed it,” Guillen said. “When you lose a game, obviously you’re not happy about it, but he did a very important thing for us. Even when he’s bad, he still helps the ballclub.”

Man, if only Adam Dunn and Alex Rios could help the team even while being (very) bad, the White Sox would have about 100 wins by now.

This year's team is one of the more disappointing Pale Hose squads I can recall.

2. Accent Shallow Posted: August 18, 2011 at 01:56 PM (#3902952)

3. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance Posted: August 18, 2011 at 02:23 PM (#3902970)

I don't think anyone saw this coming from either of them - I could have seen Dunn doing this in the last year, or even the second-to-last year of the contract. But until now, he'd been metronomic in his consistency.

And I thought Rios was back, after what he did last year. Too bad, he's a hell of an exciting player to watch when he's on.

I'll give you Dunn, but Rios? He was absolutely horrible in 09, pumping out a 79 OPS+.
And what exactly dod he do last year? He had one really, really hot month in May, and was below average the rest of the way, being back to completely craptacular by the end of the year. His OPS+ by month: 100; 175; 95; 87; 80; 65. Honestly, how did people NOT expect him to be terrible? (maybe not this terrible, but still terrible)

4. The Long Arm of Rudy Law Posted: August 18, 2011 at 03:26 PM (#3903018)

I could have seen Dunn doing this in the last year, or even the second-to-last year of the contract. But until now, he'd been metronomic in his consistency.

He's a different kind of consistent now. From Posnanski on Tuesday:

Here is Adam Dunn's batting average split up every 10 games:

First 10 games: .162
Games 11 to 20: .147
Games 21 to 30: .250
Games 31 to 40: .205
(This included a four-hit game)
Games 41 to 50: .114
Games 51 to 60: .133
Games 61 to 70: .061
Games 71 to 80: .103
Games 71 to 90: .212
Games 91 to 99: .129

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