White Sox 13, Giants 8, Final - May 18, 2008

SportFiends • MLB Wrap: Soriano hits 2 more home runs… Cubs still lose
Pirates 7 - Cubs 6 : Alfonso Soriano hit 2 home runs for the second straight game but it wasn’t enough to help the Cubs to a win. It was Nate McLouth ’s 9th inning home run off Carlos Marmol that allowed the Pirates to break the tie and ...

Black Sox Blog • Fourth Straight
The struggling Mark Buehrle faced off against the winless and ex-Cy Young winner Barry Zito and the San Francisco Giants and pitched a good game leading the White Sox to a 3-1 win and their fourth straight. Buehrle lasted six and two-thirds innings ...

South Side Sox: Front Page Posts • Game 44: White Sox (22-20) @ Giants (17-27)
John Danks (LHP) vs. Matt Cain (RHP) Time: 3:05 p.m. CT, TV: CSN, Radio: WSCR AM-670 ( B-R preview , Live Boxscore ; 2007 MLB Gameday ; 2008 MLB Gameday ) Today's Starters W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA  ...

Giants Cove • The Giants Play Indiana Jones Next Thursday
We here at Giants Cove have been conspicuously absent for a little less than a week (blame it on the sunny weather). Frolicking in the 90 degree sun limit’s one’s ability to do anything along the lines of write, read, work, and any number ...

West Coast Bias Sports Blog • Giant letdown still fun for lil' one
Well, my daughter’s first baseball game wasn’t a bust after all. Sure, it started sloooow, but San Francisco Giants starter Matt Cain did take a no-hitter into the fifth. Problem was, nobody noticed – not even the sportswriter in the fam – ...

El Lefty Malo • 5/18/08: Bad Patch
White Sox 13, Giants 8 : Good pitching, no hitting. Lots of hitting, worse pitching. That's the way it goes these days. Two and eleven in the past two weeks, much of which parallels the downward spiral of the bullpen, though today you could hardly ...

Chicago White Sox Fan Message Board... The White Sox Guy • Sox Sweep Giants With 13-8 Win (Game 44, '08)
The White Sox bullpen was not at their best today.  Good thing this was one of the better days for their offense.  With all the scoring and back-and-forth today, this is a game that could have gone either way.  When the White Sox ...

Yellow Chair Sports • Pick-on-Hawk Week continues
Or cliched hyperbole-style: "I swear... every break... on a bad call by an umpire... has gone against us on this road trip." -Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, colorful and popular White Sox play-by-play announcer after a close force play during today's ...

Castillo on the rise in batting order
Giants third baseman Jose Castillo was elevated to second in the batting order against the White Sox on Sunday, thanks to his hot bat. Castillo has raised his average to .262 entering Sunday's game from a low of .228 a week ago.

Swisher's double helps top Giants
Nick Swisher hit a three-run double with two outs in the eighth inning to break a tie as the White Sox earned the sweep with a 13-8 win over the Giants on Sunday. Orlando Cabrera hit a solo shot and a two-run home run, two of four White Sox homers.

Swisher helps Sox win slugfest 13-8
Nick Swisher spoiled the San Francisco Giants' day with a tiebreaking three-run double in the eighth as a pinch-hitter, lifting the White Sox to a 13-8 victory Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.

Swisher helps ChiSox outslug Giants 13-8 (AP)
Nick Swisher still draws some cheers in these parts. The former fan favorite across the bay in Oakland spoiled the San Francisco Giants' day with a tiebreaking three-run double in the eighth as a pinch-hitter, lifting the Chicago White Sox to a ...

Walker hoping for a click fix
SAN FRANCISCO -- White Sox hitting coach Greg Walker would like to tell you everything is fine, nothing to see here.

Linebrink's earning his salary
SAN FRANCISCO -- No offseason move by general manager Ken Williams was scrutinized more than the four-year, $19 million deal he gave to right-handed reliever Scott Linebrink .

Sox' 9-4 run testament to players' resiliency
SAN FRANCISCO -- It was just two weeks ago that Ozzie Guillen and his traveling collection of misfits were all but left for dead.