The Tribune's Dave van Dyck points to 10 games the Sox could have won this season:
April 5: Indians 4, Sox 3 (11)
Boone Logan is handed a 3-2 lead in the 8th, but he gives up the tying run. Sox load the bases in the 9th but come up de empty. Neal Cotts gives up the winning run in the 11th. Sox had the tying run on 2nd with 1 out in the 11th but came up empty.
April 8: Royals 4, Sox 3
Cliff Politte is given a 3-2 lead, but he gives up a 2-run, game-winning homer in the 9th.
May 5: Royals 5, Sox 4
Bobby Jenks is handed a 2-1 lead, but gives up 3 (of the 4) runs in the 9th.
May 21: Cubs 7, Sox 4
Neal Cotts is handed a 4-1 lead in the 8th, but gives up a game-tying triple to M. Barrett and a 2-run homer to Jacque Jones who was 1/20 against lefties.
May 27: Blue Jays 3, Sox 2 (11) Sox tie the game in the 9th off Toronto closer B.J. Ryan and have runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs but come away empty.
June 29: Pirates 7, Sox 6
Cliff Politte is handed a tied game, but he gives up the game-winning homer at the 9th.
July 30: Orioles 8, Sox 7
Jermaine Dye hits a 3-run homer and scores 5 runs. Bobby Jenks is handed a 7-6 lead in the 9th, but hits a batter and gives up 2 runs.
Aug. 26: Twins 8, Sox 7 (11)
Sox come back from a 5-1 deficit and tie the game with Jermaine's 2-run homer in the 9th, but Matt Thornton allows a single, a stolen base, and another single for the game's winning run.
Aug. 31: Devil Rays 5, Sox 3 (10)
Matt Thornton blows the save in the 8th. Brandon McCarthy loads the bases and gives up a 2-run single in the 10th.
Sept. 5: Red Sox 1, White Sox 0
After Bobby Jenks gives up the game-tying run run the 9th, and Brandon McCarthy the game-winning run in the 9th on the night before, rookie pitcher Kason Gabbard shuts down the Sox.
And who can forget the times Ozzie started Mackowiak, instead of BA in CF and Mack turned outs to hits? Like in a game at the Cell against the twins, where Mack's misreads in an inning at the beginning of the game turned into 3 runs for the twins. I think it was the August 26 game. I don't blame Mack, CF is not his position. I blame the guy who put him there.