Sox lose, skid hits three

John Danks has a solid first start to his season

On a cold April night, the White Sox found their bats to be even colder.

After dropping their 5th consecutive opening day series, the White Sox hosted division rivals Minnesota Twins at the Cell. Although their bats have been silent for the most part of the season- their pitching remains to live up to the hype. Friday's starter, John Danks, pitched six solid inning giving up only one earned run on eight hits while walking one and striking out six.

The White Sox jumped out to a 1-0 lead early in the 3rd inning on a Juan Pierre double play squeeze. The White Sox would then let the lead slip away in the 6th inning on a Delmon Young single and a single by Brandon Harris- courtesy of an Alexei Ramirez error (2 total in the game). The South Siders were not done yet though, in the 7th inning Alex Rios stepped to the plate and stepped up to deliver a double that drove in Konerko and Quintin- giving them the lead 3-2.

The Bullpen was pitching well throughout the last couple games but was wearing thin because of extra innings the previous night, which lead to Scott Linebrink coming into the game in the 7th inning to make his first appearance of the season. Linebrink quickly gave up a run to Justin Morneau, doubling down the right foul line driving in Denard Span to tie the game up at 3 a piece.

From there on the White Sox bats went ice cold, mustering ten hits on the night with six of them coming after the game was tied in the 7th inning. On a normal day, ten hits would normally be enough for the Sox to come out victorious on the game but these hits were scattered throughout the innings without any remedy or attempt to build a scoring inning. They had opportunities to win the game, two outs in the bottom of the 7th with Alexei on third.. Gordon Beckham fouled out to first to end the inning and the scoring threat.

The winning run would come off a Tony Pena pitch late in the 11th inning- JJ Hardy singling to left to bring in the winning run in Joe Mauer. The White Sox had one more chance to tie it up or potentially win, however they couldn't get get anything going on offense when they needed it the most- hopefully a problem Ozzie fixes sooner rather than later while the division is still within grasp.

The White Sox are 1-3 this season, although it is a long season these South Siders have a lot of problems to work out before they can be taken seriously in our division- especially since the Twins are a red hot 4-1 already.