Back to the Pack...Sox Lose Game and Series to Yankees With 6-4 Loss (Game 20, '08)

Javier Vazquez was not good tonight, allowing ten hits and six earned runs.  Even with the White Sox trying to climb back into the game, six runs are too many to allow, especially when Mussina was on and the invincible Mariano Rivera awaited in the Yankee pen.  The White Sox have brought themselves back to the pack with an inability to pitch and get the key hits when needed.  It looks like 2007 all over again.  The fight the Sox showed to get back in it was better than laying down, but this team was essentially never in this game tonight...a disturbing fact to note. 

This White Sox team appears overmatched.  Without much speed on this team, they need sustained hits in a given inning - something they cannot do lately.  Either this team needs to hit lots of doubles and home runs, or hope they can string together four singles to get just one run across.  With this team's inability to get multiple hits in a given inning, they cannot score with any consistency, and I can see the hitters pressing, since they themselves know this.  They swing for the fences instead of trying to get base hits and doubles, and they end up flying or poping out since they are pressing.  That was the story all night with the exception of the Quentin and Crede home runs. 

The White Sox have a chance to salvage a game tomorrow, and they will need to do so against the winless Hughes.  Hopefully Gavin Floyd can continue his solid outings, and Hughes can remain winless.