Well for the second straight night the White Sox were able to come back from an early deficit to beat the Royals. Thankfully, they did it in less than 13 innings on Wednesday. Javier Vazquez had another rough night, allowing six runs in 5.2 innings, but the White Sox bullpen didn't give up a run over the final 3.1 innings to allow the Sox offense to catch up.
Carlos Quentin hit two home runs (only because I benched him on my fantasy team yesterday) to supply most of the damage for the Sox, but it was Orlando Cabrera's smart base-running in the 8th inning that led to the him scoring the tying run on Jim Thome's single. Of course it was also OC's stolen base that led to the most interesting aspect of last night's game.
That would be the little dust up between Cabrera and Jermaine Dye in the dugout after Orlando scored. You see, when Orlando stole third, JD was at the plate with an 0-1 count. Apparently Jermaine was distracted by Orlando's dancing and subsequent take off from second on the next pitch, and swung at a fastball low and off the plate for strike two. JD would then strike out on a splitter on the next pitch.
Well, as Orlando came into the dugout after scoring, he was giving high fives and after he gave one to JD, Jermaine must have said something because Orlando immediately turned around and said something back. Orlando kept yelling at Dye and eventually had to be pushed away from him by Jose Contreras.
At least, that's what I think happened. Neither player was really willing to talk about what happened, but I'm about 99.999% sure it had something to do with that stolen base and JD's 0-for-4 night and two strikeouts. Whatever happened, Jermaine says it's all over with now.
"A little bit of a misunderstanding," Dye said. "When you're together for so long, things like that happen. When all was said and done, we came up and hugged and got over it. I'm not going into what it was about. It was just a little something."
Also, as you'd expect, Ozzie was just fine with the whole thing.
"When you're a man, you say what you feel," he said. "You agree to disagree and you move on. I don't want good guys. I want winners. Good guys finish last. I want guys who go out there and bust their tails and back each other up. This is a family, and when you live with a family so long, you fight. It was just a misunderstanding."
Of course, it's a lot easier to let bygones be bygones after a win than it is a loss. Either way, Jermaine should be apologizing to Orlando because he was in the wrong. How exactly Jermaine can get mad at a teammate for stealing third and getting in position to score the tying run with one out in the 8th inning, I'm not sure. So you struck out, who cares? It happens all the time.
What's more important is the fact that after you struck out OC scored the tying run and then Royals reliever Ramon Ramirez (say that five times fast) balked in what would turn out to be the winning run.
Oh, and the Twins got absolutely pasted by the Red Sox on Wednesday afternoon, so the Sox now have a nice 3.5 game cushion in the AL Central, which is nice.
Sunday was a pretty frustrating day for the Chicago White Sox. Not only were they getting their butts kicked by the Kansas City Royals, and saying goodbye to their position atop the AL Central in the process, but there was also a bench-clearing incident in the fifth inning of the game.
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