Esteban Loaiza

The more things change, the more they stay the same for the White Sox on the West Coast. Despite a dramatic, two-out ninth inning home run by Jose Valentin to tie the game, Oakland prevailed in the bottom of the 12th, 6-4, on a two-run homer by Bobby...

It's only three months into Ozzie Guillen's first season as a manager, but he already has bought into the prevailing thinking of big-league managers--you pitch your closer in the ninth inning of save situations no matter what. It doesn't matter if the...

A lot has changed for the Sox since that first series with the Cubs a week ago. The South Siders are now two up in the Central and made a major move, acquiring starter Freddy Garcia. Meanwhile the Cubs still are three games back and spinning their wheels...

The White Sox must be slow readers, because the Minnesota Twins keep sending messages that are being ignored. One night after being run over in the field and shut down at the plate, the Sox once again gave the Twins and a sellout crowd of 37,528 the...

The last time White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was in Wrigley Field—at Game 7 of the 2003 National League Championship Series—he was happily taunting Cubs fans, giving them the international gesture for choking. But Guillen was a lot more subdued on his...

White Sox players spared themselves some grief Thursday, although it would have been fun to be a little mouse in the clubhouse if they hadn't beaten Anaheim 9-8. "They should thank God we won because they were going to have the biggest meeting they...

With the White Sox season slipping into September oblivion, manager Ozzie Guillen recently had a meeting to give his players new incentive. The message: "A lot of people here have to impress me." Maybe some of the right guys were listening, at least...

The White Sox lost to the Twins in so many different ways Wednesday they were lucky it counted as only one game. They lost it at the plate, where they managed to have six straight batters reach in the seventh inning and score just one run, on a two-out...

Jose Contreras is no kid, but this season has been, in the words of White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, "a learning process" for the right-hander. Contreras, 32, frustrated the New York Yankees with his stubbornness in pitch selection after becoming a...

The White Sox set a franchise records for home runs during Friday night's game against Kansas City. This is mentioned because the Sox lost 8-6 despite the two homers that raised their season total to 222. In other words, it takes more than home runs...

Frank Thomas put up, well, Frank Thomas numbers this year. But that doesn't mean he's eager to test the free-agent waters. "You never know what the free-agent market's going to hold," he said. "Last year was a bust." So Thomas wants to stay with the...

After finally snapping a seven-game losing streak to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday, pitcher Mark Buehrle said the White Sox wanted to send a message. Consider Thursday Chapter 2. The Sox routed the Twins for a second-straight time with a 10-3 victory at...