Jorge Posada 6, White Sox 4.

I approached this game with great trepidation.  After all, Mussina was pitching and when he's out there we can get anything from the near perfecto to the 2 inning meltdown.  Thankfully, we got the best we can hope to get out of him this season.  I know he has some good games left in him, I just hope that those good games that are left are what we get from him each time out.  I don't expect a complete game shutout (although one of those would be nice), but a quality start would be more than enough, provided our offense shows up that night.  He went 7 innings tonight, giving up only two runs on four hits.  Stellar, stellar job from him tonight.  Hawkins and Traber were the bridge to Mo tonight, and their bridge had many gaps, holes and missing planks.  We handed them a 6-2 lead and it quickly became 6-4; thankfully we were able to stop their scoring.  I know that the "Joba must be a starter" brigade have a point when saying that he's too good to waste away in the bullpen, but games like this (and frankly, other ones this season) show just how valuable he is to us in the pen right now.  We have two reliable bullpen pitchers.  Just two; Joba and Mo.  That's not going to cut it.  We need someone else in there with a decent arm so that when Joba makes the transition to the rotation, we're not left with a giant hole to try and fill. 


Much like last night, heading into the later innings, our offense was all but dead.  We had scored only one run at this point, and it came in the second inning.  During the fifth and sixth innings, again like last night, our lineup decided to wake up.  And no one was more refreshed and awake than Jorge Posada, who went 4-5 with 3 doubles and 2 RsBI.  Johnny Damon had another good night, going 2-5 with 2 RsBI.  Our final offensive star was Melky Cabrera, who went 2-4 with an RBI than opened our scoring for the game.  And one of the funniest things to happen tonight was when Jason Giambi stole a base.  Speed kills, dude. 


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