I didn’t get to see much of this game – Wed is my bowling league night, and I neglected to record the game. Got to see us try and come back late, but that was about it. It’s a loss, although Mike Young played good.

Crappy, sloppy game. Got to talk to some nice folks up from Houston in the stands, though. That was nice. :)

At the start of this game, I said to a friend at the ballpark that I have a feeling that the Dave Burba we saw in the complete game his last outing wasn’t the one we’ll get here – and I was right – he gave up three runs in the top of the first in a mostly ineffective inning. However, what did surprise me is that we got them right back in the bottom of the first and the game was tied pretty quickly on a Raffy HR. The White Sox pulled ahead in the third 4-3, and we had SEVERAL chances over the next couple of innings to take the lead, and we didn’t. We did tie the game up in the 6th, though.
However, in the 7th, Gabe committed the second of his two errors of the game and allowed the go ahead run to score. However, we managed to pull it together and tie the game in the bottom of the 8th, and finally win it in the bottom of the 9th on a sac fly by Gabe, atoning for his errors.
Not thrilled with Burba, although our pen did pretty good not allowing anything major. Nice to pull off this win, even though it helped the Indians as they too won.

Ugh. :(

No time to write commentary, but even if I did, what more needed to be said about this one than Bartolo Colon? :)

No time to write commentary, still way too busy at work. Nice to see 6 in a row, though!

No time to write commentary, too busy at work. Nice to see a sweep, though!

Dave Burba pitched a complete game – Dave Burba?!? Of all our pitchers this season, Burba was the one I least expected to pitch a complete game. Not that I’m not happy about it mind you, just more surprised at seeing that. Was nice to see us get out and get another win – this now makes three straight series we’ve won, and with the Indians reeling pretty good, I’m hoping we can step into Cleveland on Friday and take another one there. With Seattle losing too, we’ve pulled into a respectable last place position of only 6.5 games out. :)
Anyway, there’s not much to say about this game except Burba was great, tossing only 104 pitches for the complete game, and our offense was good – with Arod getting another home run, and Raffy finally getting his 500th double – he really was hoofing it to get that one, too. :) Rusty Greer contuinues to play extremely well, going 4-5, scoring a couple of runs, and driving one in. This modified lineup that Narron has had out there the last couple of days has worked really well. Bill Haselman also had a few RBI’s himself, and has done really well the last week or so.
We’ll probably see Hector Ortiz catching tonight as Has needs a day off again.