Charlotte 5, Syracuse 2

Kuhn 2-4, 2B

Jackson 0-4

Phegley 1-4

Danks 0-4

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2012_04_29_chraaa_syraaa_1

Birmingham 5, Montgomery 3

Saladino 2-4, 3B, BB

Wilkins 2-4, HR, CS

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2012_04_29_biraax_monaax_1&t=g_box&did=milb

W-S 9, Wilmington 2

Semien 1-4, 2B, BB, SF

Sanchez 1-6, 2B

Thompson 1-4, BB, 2 K

Blanke 1-4, 2B, HBP

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t580&t=g_box&gid=2012_04_29_wswafa_wilafa_1

Kanny 8, Rome 5

Smith 2-4, SF

Ravelo 3-4, 3B, HBP

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t487&t=g_box&gid=2012_04_29_kanafx_romafx_1

Everyone here knows the story of Buck Weaver, one of the "8 men out" from the 1919 Black Sox tossed World Series. Buck had refused to to take the money or give anything less than his all, but was still banned because he knew the fix was in but didn't say anything.

What most people don't know is that Buck is the only member of that group that never left Chicago...

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More Rare Than Perfect

By Eric Roth (posted in The Beachwood Reporter 4/27/12)

The ballpark now known as U.S. Cellular Field has seen some real special baseball history over its relatively short time as the home of the Chicago White Sox. The 2005 World Series championship and Mark Buehrle's perfecto immediately come to mind for most White Sox fans. But the rarest baseball event to take place at The Cell took place before any of those remarkable achievements. And its 10-year anniversary is right around the corner.

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, the White Sox took on the Mariners at the new Comiskey Park (as a lot of people still referred to it back then). According to Baseball-Reference.com, 12,891 people were there. But it was an especially cold and disgusting night, and there were far less than that number in attendance by midway through the game (being conservative: not more than 7,000 or so by the end).

My friend Phil and I were among them; we started the game in seats down the left-field line, close to where the Sox had recently done construction, moving the seats closer in toward fair territory. James Baldwin, the former White Sox pitcher, was on the bump for the Mariners. The Sox started the young and promisingly large Jon Rauch. What happened in the top of the first was a unique occurrence in Major League Baseball history.

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Hey guys, i was wondering if anyone could help me out with a list of current White Sox player's at bat songs...or at least point me in the right direction? Im trying to help compile a list of every teams at bat music for a new site http://atbatmusicproject.com/ So far im coming up short with the Sox and havent had any luck finding anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Help me out Sox fans!!

Thanks,

AP

Hello there, esteemed Rumpusers.

As some of you are aware, I live in Seattle these days and therefore got to see a few Sox games in person this past weekend. Just a regular ol' Sox sweep at Safeco. The usual. And I guess that Perfect Game nstuff.

Saturday's game took all the limelight for rightful reasons and I nearly forgot to mention the exceptional time that was Friday night's game. Figured I'd use this week's RRRR to fill in just a couple of the details.

Every time they visit Seattle, I catch one of the Sox games with my friend Hassan, who is also from Chicago. We were introduced through email in early 2008, by a mutual Seattle friend who knew we shared a love for the White Sox. So we made a plan to meet in person for the first time over a Chicago hot dog lunch on Sox Opening Day '08; and we've been great friends since.

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You folks are truly amazing followers-of-instructions. Thank you!

We are almost entirely paid on our section for the outing and we have quite the robust bunch of folks attending this year.
I need to pay off the balance ASAP, but I'm missing a few payments yet, so let me know what's up/when I can expect your money (if you haven't already).

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As we enter Spring Training in 2026, few things stand to remain the same as in years past. The economy is down. The number of owners is down. Spirits are down. Above all, patience is down. Never before has a season approached with so many uncertainties, and only time will tell the fate of your dear old BMO.

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In basking in the glory of another White Sox perfect game, I'm humbled by not only by how rare the single achievement is, but by how lucky we are to have witnessed it twice.

First you must know that night games start at 2am here. So the only games I can actually watch (through mlb.tv) are the day games. Buehrle's perfecto happened on a Thursday day game, which is a nice 7pm start here so I was able to catch every pitch. Throughout the game I was explaining to my French girlfriend the significance of the event (She is not into sports whatsoever, but she is starting to pick up on baseball. A side note, she was sad to see Buehrle go too and she also thought Carlos Quentin was cute until he took his hat off.)

But I digress. I was explaining in great detail what was happening - not only what a "perfect game" is, but also how rare it is that a perfect game actually happens, and how it is even rarer to have the chance to witness it live. "Once in a lifetime, chèrie!"

"Call your sons, call your daughters, …", Dewayne Wise’s catch, the final out .. she joined me in jumping up and down in the apartment in celebration. What a moment.

So that brings us to Saturday – a nice 10pm start for the game here. We were walking home from dinner and a movie I see on my MLB app on my phone that the game is already in the 5th inning and I see no hits for Seattle. I browse the summary and see that Humber is perfect through 5. We walk much more quickly now. I get home and fire up the mlb.tv and we are in the top of the 6th.

After the 7th inning, I revisit the subject with my girlfriend. "Do you remember what Buehrle did? Well it’s happening again!" Her : "Wow!". I don’t think she understand the gravity of the moment.

We watch, we watch, we watch .. exciting and tense and I continue to stress the rarity of a perfect game … from over 170,000 games played, it’s happened 20 times.

Then the final out – she loves seeing the players celebrate like boys! She joins me in jumping up and down again, and after it’s all done and we (or "I") calm down a bit, she says, "this has happened twice to your team. How rare can it be?"

Oh how lucky we are!

(Author's Note: This article was originally published on SB Nation Chicago as a feature, you can find the original version by clicking here. Thanks for reading.)

Coming into this season, I'm willing to expect pretty much anything from White Sox starter Jake Peavy. He's a total wild card.

I mean, mostly I'm expecting his arm to fall off eventually, at which point he'll pick it up, stick it in his knapsack and saunter off to the disabled list like he's done so many times. But damn, have these early starts given a multitude of reasons for hope.

In the past, Peavy has usually pitched well when he's been on the mound, so the larger issue has been simply getting to the point where doctors aren't tugging at their collars as the pitcher insists he's good to go. But in his third season pitching for Chicago*, Peavy has looked different. He's looked really, really good, too.

*How the hell has Jake Peavy already been pitching in Chicago for nearly three years? I feel like Alex Rios is to blame for this all somehow.

To be clear, Peavy isn't the same pitcher he was during his peak in San Diego. He no longer sits around 92.5 MPH with his fastball, averaging 91.3 MPH in his first three starts of 2012. With that decline in velocity, Peavy has turned to his off-speed stuff more frequently, leading to more strikeouts so far but an unfortunate decrease in groundballs.

Considering that Peavy never exactly got a ton of grounders in the first place, you'd have to admit that he's walking a tightrope right now by letting 52 percent of his batted balls allowed go into the air. He's going to give up more home runs soon if this equation doesn't change soon.

But so far, he's fixing one variable that had increasingly been an issue with him over his White Sox career: allowing contact. In his peak, Peavy was allowing hitters to make contact around 75 percent of the time while swinging the bat. During his first two years in Chicago, that figure sat around 81-82%, but this season it's back down to 74 percent.

To put that 74 percent mark into perspective, it would've been the very best mark among all starting pitchers in baseball last season. So beyond the fact that Peavy is getting a ton of strikeouts so far this season (9.6 K/9), he's doing so by getting the swing-and-misses that are so integral to doing it consistently.

And what it all leads to is the specter of possibility. The idea that after two-plus seasons of dumping money into the Jake Peavy Money Hole, the White Sox might actually get something useful out of their final season before taking the family station wagon to a new location (the Adam Dunn Money Dump).

Yeah, Peavy needs to stop giving up so many fly balls, because eventually some of them are going to travel far enough to do some real damage. And there's a decent chance that he won't miss so many bats once that happens. But right now, he could trade some K's for grounders and be perfectly fine.

Maybe they'll get 200-plus high-quality innings out of Peavy, stumbling their way into a surprisingly tolerable season with him and Chris Sale leading the rotation. Or even better, maybe Peavy will become intriguing enough that some desperate contender will flip some prospects for the veteran, giving Chicago an opportunity to improve the worst farm system in baseball.

But Peavy might blow out his arm again. You could probably even convince me that it's the most likely of the three scenarios I just listed. I'm just happy we can recognize that those other two possibilites even exist at this point, as sad as that might be to say.

There's probably nothing that Peavy can do short of winning the AL Cy Young to convince the White Sox that his $22 million club option for 2013 is a better investment than the $4 million buyout.

But by the end of this season, Chicago will have paid $52 million to Peavy for three years of service. It would be pretty cool if that investment didn't end up feeling like a complete waste.

Satchel Price is a newsdesk contributor for SB Nation Midwest and a feature columnist forSB Nation Chicago. His baseball writing also appears on MLB Daily Dish and Beyond the Box Score. For more of his splendid whimsy in display, follow him on Twitter.

Top pitching prospects squared off as White Sox prospect Nestor Molina bested Dodgers prospect Allen Webster in Southern League action. I caught the first seven innings of Molina's start and came away quite impressed despite a slow start.

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