I am not too proud to tell you that if you’d asked me mere months ago if Michael Lorenzen would have been as good as he was today, I would have said “Who is Michael Lorenzen?”
Anyway, I’m opening the recap with the good news: Lorenzen was fantastic. Perfect, in fact, for more than five innings. He kept the White Sox scoreless through 6.2 innings. He was ON. Alas, he was also responsible for two of the baserunners when Jason Foley came on, so when Gavin Sheets hit a base-clearing double, well... We’ll get to that.
Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves and see how this game turned into a rollercoaster into the late innings.