See, the White Sox are playing in their biggest series of the season so far right now. (If you want to know what's so big about it, go here. If not keep reading.
The Sox have been playing like ass lately, and were in danger of digging themselves into a hole in the standings behind the division leading Detroit Tigers. So last night when those Tigers came to town with the best record in baseball it was imperative that we get a win.
For the first 7 innings of the game I was pretty sure we weren't going to. The final nail in the coffin came in the bottom of the 7th.
Trailing the Tigers 3-1, the Sox had the bases loaded with 1 out, and their two big sluggers coming up. First Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya used his 99MPH fastball to strike out Jim Thome. Then he used that same fastball to jam Paul Konerko and cause him to fly out harmlessly to centerfield.
Inning over, and as has happened a lot with the White Sox lately, an oppurtunity squandered.
So why do I want to thank Ana Uribe?
Ana Uribe is the wife of our starting shortstop Juan Uribe. Juan was penciled in to start Tuesday night until Ana went into labor in the afternoon with the couples 4th child. So Juan had to leave US Cellular Field to go be with his wife.
That meant Alex Cintron would be starting in Juan's place at shortstop.
So in the bottom of the 8th inning with the White Sox still trailing 3-1 with Jermaine Dye on second, and Joe Crede on first (both there by walks, and walks will KILL you) Alex Cintron came to the plate.
He was facing the guy who has been Detroit's most dominant reliever. Yes, more dominant than Joel Zumaya and his 99MPH fastball. Fernando Rodney.
With a 3-2 count Rodney tried to get his fastball by Cintron on the inner half of the plate, belt high.
I say tried.
Instead Cintron sent the pitch into the Bullpen Sports Bar's patio out past the right field fence.
4-3 White Sox, and Bobby Jenks would pitch a perfect 9th inning to seal the victory for the Sox.
It was Cintron's first home run in a White Sox uniform. Last year he hit two walk off pinch hit home runs for the Arizona Diamondbacks, so apparently he has a knack for getting these kinds of home runs. He's one of those guys who only hits them when they really matter.
And of the 83 home runs the White Sox have hit this year, none of them mattered more than his last night.
And none of it would have happened if Ana Uribe hadn't gone into labor.
Ok, so the world didn't end yesterday. Satan never showed, and the sky didn't rain fire. Let's face it, Satan lives in the same times we do now, and he's gone soft on us.
He was probably too busy catching up on all the episodes of The Real World:Key West that he had missed to condemn us all to an eternity of damnation.
Well that or he had another meeting at the White House.
I found a trailer to a pretty disturbing movie yesterday through the blog of somebody who had commented here.
The only thing I couldn't decide was, what was more disturbing? What the film is about? Or why somebody decides to make it.
If you wanna see the trailer for it its right here. It's not the happiest of movies though, so be forewarned.
Picture of the Day*
*To me the Cintron pic was really the Pic of the Day, but due to the depressing nature of that movie trailer I figure I should lighten the mood back up a lil bit.
Keepin It Real Since 1980,
Tom
2 comments:
Dont you have a sports blog for all the uninteresting stuff?????
Stick w the satan topic, good reading.
I do have a sports blog, but that's for sportswriting.
This was a story.
There's a difference, and besides my blog is about my life, and the Sox play a large part in it.
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