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Buehrle bleaches Red Sox

By john • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: aj pierzynski, boston red sox, chicago white sox, major leagues, mark buehrle, top story

Mark Buehrle held the Boston Red Sox to just four hits and one run over seven plus innings Friday night to keep his team the Chicago White Sox in first place in the AL Central.
Buehrle improved to 9-10 on the year lowering his ERA to 3.94 along the way. While not known for striking out [...]



Pen blows Buehrle’s surprise outing, Sox still find a way to win

By john • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: brian anderson, chicago white sox, mark buehrle

After pitching one inning Friday night before the game was called due to rain the Chicago White Sox were faced with a double header on Saturday without their best pitcher.
Early Saturday morning Mark Buehrle sent a text message to manager Ozzie Guillen saying he wanted to pitch Saturday. Guillen looking out for the health of [...]



Two lefties revisited

By john • Dec 26th, 2007 • Category: barry zito, mark buehrle

Last March I wondered why the San Fransisco Giants would give Barry Zito so much money. After all Zito hadn’t exactly blown the league away like it was predicted he would when he came up and after his 2002 Cy Young award has been almost non-existent when he comes to talk of top pitchers. I [...]



Buehrle no-hits Rangers

By john • Apr 20th, 2007 • Category: mark buehrle

About a month ago I compared two lefties. After looking at the amount of money Barry Zito received I wondered how much Mark Buehrle would get when he hit the free agent market after the 2007 season.
Wednesday night Buehrle added another gem to his resume, throwing a no-hitter and facing just 27 batters. The only [...]



Comparing two lefties

By john • Mar 26th, 2007 • Category: barry zito, comparisons, mark buehrle

I was looking thru the active leader boards over at baseball-reference today and I couldn’t help but notice how similar two pitchers are.
Both of these men have come from pitching deep teams the last few seasons. One man was a free agent this off season the other to be this coming off season.
Age [...]