White Sox Game

Carlos Quentin led off the ninth with his second homer off John Lackey, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 to avoid a three-game sweep on Sunday night. Quentin, who had hit a two-run shot in the third, ended the game by driving a 1-1 pitch from Lackey (1-1) to the seats in left-center. He quickly rounded the bases and got mobbed at the plate as the White Sox ended the six-game homestand on a positive note after scoring just one run in the first two games. That made a winner of Scott Linebrink (2-0), who pitched a perfect ninth after Jose Contreras threw eight strong innings. The multihomer game was Quentin's second this season and the third in his career. His 14 homers lead the American League, and he had three of the White Sox's six hits. While Quentin came through at the plate, Contreras continued to pitch the way he did in 2006 when he made the All-Star team. He allowed just two runs and three hits, including a two-run homer by Gary Matthews Jr., while striking out 10 and walking none. It was his fourth double-digit strikeout game and his first since June 17, 2006, when he had 13 in six innings against Cincinnati on June 17, 2006. Lackey, meanwhile, struck out three and walked one. A 19-game winner last season, he is easing any concerns about his arm after beginning the season on the disabled list with a strained right triceps. He allowed one run in seven innings in each of his first two starts against the White Sox and Toronto, and he was good again on Sunday. The only glitches were to Quentin. He drove a 1-0 pitch out to center with two out in the third to make it 2-0, after Alexei Ramirez led off with a single. Contreras couldn't hold it after allowing one run in each of his previous three starts. He left a belt-high pitch to Matthews over the middle of the plate after Maicer Izturis led off the fourth with a single, resulting in a two-run homer that tied it. Contreras did not allow another runner until Garret Anderson led off the seventh with a double off the heel of Quentin's glove. Contreras retired Torii Hunter and Casey Kotchman before striking out Mike Napoli to end the inning, pumping his fist as he walked off the mound. Meanwhile, a White Sox team that entered the game with the American League's second-worst average (.244) provided little support. Perhaps that explains why fans in left-center decided to volley two blowup dolls like beach balls in the eighth inning, only three weeks after the White Sox caused an uproar in Toronto by placing two nude blowup dolls in the clubhouse with bats of the players fanning out around them in a weird slump-busting ritual. - from SunTimes.com

We went to the Chicago White Sox game. I won four tickets from a drawing at Ultra Foods. They were ticket vouchers and the May 25th game was the last game we could use them. We left around 5:00 p.m. and got to Cellular Field before 6:00 p.m. It was a beautiful night. We sat in the upper deck four rows from the last row. They played the California Angels. The Sox won in the bottom of the ninth with a home run by Carlos Quentin. He hit a home run earlier in the night for their first two runs. We got home after 11:00 p.m.