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Alexei Ramirez Gets the Dropsies

Alexei Ramirez and the White Sox had a night to forget Friday.

Less than 24 hours after I praised his defense at shortstop, Ramirez had the worst 1-error game I've ever seen. By my count, he missed/dropped 5 different plays.

The most damaging missed opportunity was the lone credited error in the first inning. Aaron Hill hit a routine double play ball to Ramirez after Marco Scutaro led off the game with a single. Ramirez not only flubbed the play, he kicked the ball far enough away that Scutaro was able to advance to third. More importantly, nobody was out, so Gavin Floyd's strikeout of Alex Rios was merely out number one instead of the end of the inning. By the time the inning was over, Toronto had used a couple of doubles and a steal (a recurring theme) to put up 3 runs after the Sox should have been out of the inning.

Floyd had a good curveball working, but much like Colon last night, his fastball kept finding the center of the plate. The Jays did not miss it.

The Sox didn't appear to be completely out of it until the 3rd when they started the with two consecutive hits, a double by Brian Anderson and a single by Chris Getz, to put runners on the corners with nobody out. A walk to Carlos Quentin would load the bases with 1 out, but Jim Thome and a Jermaine Dye, who didn't see a strike before 3-2, couldn't do anything.

Then it was Ramirez' turn to really put things out of range. With Floyd chased from the game and Jack Egbert on the mound, Ramirez dropped the first two balls he saw, one a bad exchange on another easy double play ball and the other a bad exchange on high chopper behind the mound. Ramirez' troubles would continue into the the 6-run 6th, with yet another dropped exchange following an intentional walk to load the bases. Needless to say, that walk would score, as Jack Egbert got a bunch of groundballs, but few recorded for outs.

* * * * *

When the Blue Jays recorded their 3rd double and 3rd stolen base of the evening by the third inning I got curious. And when I get curious, I head to my B-R Play Index account.

In the time it takes Alexei Ramirez to drop a glove exchange, I learned that the White Sox have only had 5 games with Ozzie Guillen as a manager in which they've hit 3+ doubles and stolen 3+ base. But the Blue Jays didn't stop at 3 doubles, of course, by the end of the 6th they had 6 doubles to go along with those three steals. The Sox hadn't had such a game since 1966. And by the 7th, the Jays had upped their doubles to 7, which (combined with the SBs) the Sox haven't done in the easily searchable Retrosheet era.

* * * * *

Revisiting a theme from the first week of the season, the Sox followed up a game in which they nearly got shut out by Adam Eaton of all people, with a blanking at the hands of Brian Tallet and the back-end of the Jays pen. I could probably write a few paragraphs on the Sox offensive struggles, but you're not even reading anymore and I'm not a masochist. I'll just write what I wrote on my twitter account; when you get shut down by Adam Eaton and Brian Tallet on back-to-back nights, it's not the pitching... it's you.

Fine, one more... It was the worst shutout loss since 1998.

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ozzie just was saying that alexei "doesn't have his head in the game"

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by larry on Apr 24, 2009 10:42 PM CDT reply actions  

bringing his bat to the field?

he’s just starting to hit. i thought sure his first AB was a homer.
maybe he got served with divorce papers before the game?

brian anderson would've caught that...

by BuehrleMan on Apr 24, 2009 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions  

Glad I was spending the evening outdoors.....yeeesh.

General Soreness mocks Q's highly-specific soreness. -TAEG

by homesickalien on Apr 24, 2009 11:09 PM CDT reply actions  

1-800-BECKHAM
Ozzie’s … really starting to worry about SS Alexei Ramirez, who was batting a paltry .157 heading into Friday’s game.

Ramirez carried himself with a quiet confidence last season, but the more he swings and misses at breaking pitches, the more that confidence seems to erode.

Ramirez has been fine defensively, but if he is still batting well under .200 at the end of May, it might be time to call up Gordon Beckham.

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1856

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Apr 24, 2009 11:34 PM CDT reply actions  

i'm glad i missed most of this one.

and if they’re going to go do shit like that, should i even be writing that much before hand?

THIS STORY ONLY ENDS ONE WAY

by colintj on Apr 24, 2009 11:37 PM CDT reply actions  

I was there

Don’t know how ugly it looked on TV, but trash was blowing everywhere and most of the fans completely quit on the team by the fourth. I eeked out a good time regardless, but it was the saddest state I’ve seen that park in in I can’t remember how long.

by billyok on Apr 25, 2009 1:52 AM CDT reply actions  

Turned this one off last night

Not pretty… like I said in the gamethread, I had a bad feeling about it from the start.

Things could get really ugly really quickly in the Chicago baseball world

"...and when it comes to baseball, we have two favorite clubs: the Go-Go White Sox...and whoever plays the Cubs!!!"

by 815Sox on Apr 25, 2009 10:02 AM CDT reply actions  

I'm not going to see the blue jays anymore

I went yesterday and it was disgusting… then i remembered the last time i saw the Jays at the Cell the swept us in a double header in September. Screw them! damn canadians!

Kenwo4life=ratings

by KenWo4LiFe on Apr 25, 2009 10:14 AM CDT reply actions  

I hope Calgary doesn't win tonight

You may go postal

"...and when it comes to baseball, we have two favorite clubs: the Go-Go White Sox...and whoever plays the Cubs!!!"

by 815Sox on Apr 25, 2009 1:11 PM CDT up reply actions  

ken hates the blackhawks.

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by larry on Apr 25, 2009 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions  

Ramirez made his first error of the season, but he could have been called for two more. A 1-for-3 showing at the plate actually lifted the shortstop’s average to .167.

“I worry about him,” Guillen said. "I hope he doesn’t take his bat to the field. I will never criticize my players about making errors, but it seems like he’s pressing too much.

“I don’t like what I see today. I don’t like his attitude. He was kind of head down and feeling sorry for himself.”

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=289124

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Apr 25, 2009 4:09 PM CDT reply actions  

You laugh, but Viciedo and Che have an ET-Elliott relationship.

Put them together and flowers bloom. Separate them and they die.

Phone home.

We’re a pack of a-holes.
by rhythm on Apr 14, 2009 1:45 PM EDT

by winningugly on Apr 25, 2009 5:14 PM CDT reply actions  

maybe we could adopt a minor league team in cuba?

what do you say barack?

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Apr 25, 2009 6:05 PM CDT up reply actions  

Rotation update II: Manager Ozzie Guillen said Jose Contreras and Bartolo Colon, who struggled in their last outings, “are my two guys until they tell me they can’t go anymore.”

Guillen said he was so concerned after Contreras’ last outing that it was “the first time ever I went to the bullpen to see what they’re thinking, what they’re planning.”

Hardware time: Before Saturday’s game, Carlos Quentin will be presented with his Silver Slugger Award and Alexei Ramirez his Topps All-Star Rookie Team trophy. The Silver Slugger goes to the best hitter at each position.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-25-white-sox-bits-chicago-apr25,0,6646943.story

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Apr 25, 2009 8:40 PM CDT reply actions  

Ready, or not? Sunday’s game may seem like a mismatch, considering Roy Halladay is 3-1 with a 3.72 ERA and Jose Contreras is 0-3 at 8.04, but the Sox starter believes he has his control problems figured out.

And does he know why he walked six batters in 51/3 innings last time out?

“I think I know,” he said. “I was going too fast toward home. My left arm was flying open and I did not have the right release point when I threw over the top.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-26-white-sox-bits-chicago-apr26,0,678568.story

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Apr 25, 2009 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions  

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