Jose Valentin

With the exception of Mark Buehrle on Saturday, White Sox starting pitchers kept playing with fire in their four-game series with the New York Yankees. Sox starters walked 13 Yankees in the first three games with only one coming around to score. Sunday,...

Mark Buehrle makes a habit of pitching as though he has a cab waiting with the meter running. But Tuesday night, Buehrle pitched as though he was a man on fire and he was, in a way. White Sox trainer Herm Schneider usually rubs some hot salve on...

After a frustrating night against one of the American League's toughest pitchers, the White Sox took solace in one thing: They will send ace Esteban Loaiza to the mound Thursday afternoon in their most important game of the season. "This is a tough loss,...

When the losses mounted in Arizona, the White Sox argued it didn't mean a thing. But after a 5-2 defeat to the Kansas City Royals on Friday night, the Sox have lost three straight since their season-opening win, a virtual rerun of last year, when they...

Esteban Loaiza appears to have that arm angle thing all sorted out. Loaiza improved to 3-0 with a masterful two-hit shutout Sunday in a 5-0 White Sox victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. After dropping the first game here Friday, the Sox came back...

Decisions made in the Red Line Series can leave a manager red-faced and the fans blue. Each major move of the White Sox's Ozzie Guillen and the Cubs' Dusty Baker is analyzed and magnified by a voracious Chicago media and fans. Just look at the disorder...

Every White Sox player who had a hit Sunday scored. While that may sound impressive, it isn't when you consider the Sox had just three hits off Thornwood alum Mark Mulder in a 5-3 loss. The Sox dropped three of four in Oakland to begin their eight-...

It wasn't exactly what the White Sox had in mind as a prelude for hosting the New York Yankees in a three-game series that begins Monday night. One day after virtually every part of the Sox's machine showed signs of working smoothly, not much of anything...

For the better part of three hours, it was a perfect Friday night to be a White Sox fan. What more could any true South Sider ask for than an 89-degree evening, home runs by Frank Thomas and Jose Valentin, four strikeouts by Sammy Sosa and the sight of...

It's doesn't take a blue-ribbon panel to conclude that the more money a team spends, the better its chances of making the playoffs. But jacking up the payroll doesn't mean an automatic bye to the postseason, as the Texas Rangers seem to prove in recent...

Perhaps the White Sox were tempted to sip champagne on their flight to Dallas after Thursday's night game in Anaheim. What, you don't think the Sox had anything to celebrate after getting drubbed by the Angels 5-1 before 35,056 fans at Edison...

Leave it to Ken Williams to muck things up even when everything seems to be going well. Correct me if I am wrong. Rick White got canned for something he said to the media. It took Manuel two-thirds of the season to misuse most of his pitchers and...