A WHITE SOX WINNER!!!

The streak is over!!! (for now, anyway)

What a gorgeous day for baseball - perhaps the best yet. No clouds in the sky, the humidity has dropped from yesterday. Gametime temperature 78 degrees.

No Goodyear Blimp today... so we had a B-1B High speed pass over the park after the National Anthem! (No Thunderbirds today - they actually had a mid-air incident during yesterday's show where two planes touched, dislodging the missile rail on one jet's wing, sending it fluttering (carbon composite?) into Lake Michigan).

We had a pre-game concert by somebody named Michael Tolcher. Odd.

The big deal in this game is the 4th inning against Randy Johnson.

Everything happened so quickly - at least it felt like it. Would you believe 4 home runs in the inning? THREE in a row?
And a few singles, too.

The crowd really let loose. I guess it was just that streak that got to all of us (not to mention the players). It was such a relief. I've included details of the inning below from MLB.com:

Pitch 1 - Foul Bunt Pitch 2 - Foul Pitch 3 - Ball Pitch 4 - Foul Pitch 5 - Foul Pitch 6 - In play, out(s) recorded

Pablo Ozuna grounds out, shortstop Derek Jeter to first baseman Tino Martinez.
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Pitch 1 - Ball
Pitch 2 - Ball
Pitch 3 - In play, run-scoring play

Tadahito Iguchi homers (12) on a fly ball to right field.
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Pitch 1 - Swinging Strike
Pitch 2 - Ball
Pitch 3 - Ball
Pitch 4 - Called Strike
Pitch 5 - Foul
Pitch 6 - In play, run-scoring play

Aaron Rowand homers (11) on a fly ball to right center field.
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Pitch 1 - Called Strike
Pitch 2 - Swinging Strike
Pitch 3 - In play, run-scoring play

Paul Konerko homers (32) on a fly ball to left field.
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Pitch 1 - In play, no out recorded

Jermaine Dye singles on a line drive to left fielder Hideki Matsui.
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Pitch 1 - In play, no out recorded

Juan Uribe singles on a line drive to right fielder Tony Womack. Jermaine Dye to 3rd.
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Pitch 1 - Pickoff Attempt 1B
Pitch 2 - Pickoff Attempt 1B
Pitch 3 - Ball
Pitch 4 - Swinging Strike
Pitch 5 - Foul
Pitch 6 - In play, run-scoring play

Chris Widger homers (4) on a fly ball to left field. Jermaine Dye scores. Juan Uribe scores.
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Pitch 1 - In play, out(s) recorded

Brian Anderson pops out to third baseman Alex Rodriguez in foul territory.
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Pitch 1 - Ball
Pitch 2 - Ball
Pitch 3 - Ball
Pitch 4 - Called Strike
Pitch 5 - In play, out(s) recorded

Geoff Blum lines out sharply to shortstop Derek Jeter.
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"The ball that Widger hit was literally shoulder-high," added Johnson, who had allowed 12 home runs in 116 1/3 previous career innings against the White Sox. "It wasn't meant to be a strike, it wasn't a strike, and had he not hit it, it would have probably gone to the backstop. In the fourth inning, all [heck] broke loose. I don't have an explanation for it."

During all of this, there was a kid is a Kerry Woods Cubs jersey and Yankees hat walking up and down the aisle giving the thumbs down on all of this, trying to shut-up the Sox fans. (like that was going to happen.) As a note: Worst fans at a Sox game: 1) Cub fans 2) Yankees fans. Somehow, the Boston fans seen so much nicer than either of these two groups. At least we can co-exist and have a good time. Not so with Cubs and Yankees fans.

Anyway, here's to hoping that the upcoming 10-game road trip is successful now that the streak is off their backs. We need to turn this around.

(Boxscore)