Playoffs Set

The White Sox won a thrilling 1-0 game against the Minnesota Twins, and will travel to Tampa Bay for the first game of the playoffs Thursday. Chicago's run was scored on a 7th inning rocket by Jim Thome off of Minnesota pitcher Nick Blackburn. Blackburn had a fantastic outing with 6.1 IP -4H-1 ER-3BB-3K . Despite his good outing, Blackburn was outpitched by John Danks who's line was fantastic: 8IP-2H-0 ER-3BB-4K. Bobby Jenks closed out the game by pitching a perfect 9th, with some help by a fantastic catch by Brian Anderson for the final out of the game. Anderson was in as a pinch runner for Ken Griffey Jr.

Griffey had a big play in the 5th inning, when he threw a bullseye to the plate, gunning down Michael Cuddyer. The outfield assist, nullified Cuddyer's leadoff double, and kept the game scoreless. With the game ending 1-0, the play proved to be bigger than we even thought at the time.


A couple more points:

The game was the lowest scoring one game playoff (obviously) as well as the fewest hits (7).

Cal Ripken predicted Jim Thome's homerun. Got to love that.

So the playoffs are set, we know who's playing, and the VendorBall staff is excited for some October baseball. Playoff predictions? Oh we got 'em, and they're coming tomorrow.

Updated by Kyle "October Cream" Baxter