It may a product of the lousy teams they have been playing, but the Chicago White Sox are on a roll and playing beautiful baseball. Watching today's 11-0 smashing of the Seattle Mariners was reinforcement to what we should have known before the beginning of the season: that the White Sox should win the AL Central.
Andruw Jones made the plays on defense, robbing what would be two Mariner extra base hits. He also provided a lift on offense, belting a three-run homer, albeit with the team already ahead by eight runs.
Gavin Floyd got out of jams. Him and John Danks are performing extremely well. I agree with Ozzie Guillen's idea that this team would have a chance to win it all if the playoffs started tomorrow.
Seattle may not be a good team, and they have been the losers of eight of nine games with the White Sox. But it is a relief to see the Sox take care of business in 2010. Outside of a few bad games against the Cleveland Indians early in the season, the Sox have had no trouble taking care of the teams they should beat. Playing weak NL teams like the Nationals, Pirates and Cubs is what led to the run that got them to first place. Now it's time to take care of the weaker half of the AL, and so far they have been doing a good job.
With Detroit's bad luck and injuries as of late, it appears that the AL Central will be a two-way race between the White Sox and Twins that could go down to what seems like a yearly occurrence: Game 163 to decide the AL Central. The two went down to the wire in 2008 with the Sox hanging on by a thread in that 163rd game. A similar finish could be in the works for 2010.
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