Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 16, 2008
Slugging Out a Win

The Oakland Athletics struggled to score runs lately as the Chicago White Sox came to town. The A's turned he tables on the White Sox however, as they hit four home runs to win the game 6-4. The White Sox came into town with seven four-homer games, the most in the majors. This was only Oakland's second of the season. Carlos Quentin extended his AL lead with his 33rd home run of the season.

Meanwhile, the Twins used a Jason Kubel home run to break a 2-2 tie in the fourth, and then used a ton of singles to score a total of nine runs off former teammate Carlos Silva to down the Mariners 9-3. Liriano allowed just two hits and two unearned runs over seven innings for his third win. He's posted a 1.45 ERA since returning from the minors. That puts Minnesota and Chicago into a tie for the ALCentral lead. Both are 2 1/2 games behind the Red Sox in the Wild Card race as well.


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