Adam Dunn HR Watch
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Recycling Week Sports Baseball prediction update
Posted By Ted Cox on 09.29.12 at 02:00 PM
- Paul Boucher
- Paul Konerko's midseason beaning at the hands of the Cubs' Jeff Samardzija: an omen of what was to come.
Kind of like the Sox themselves, I was flying high for a while only to see my pursuit of the Golden BAT go up in smoke of late.
In the National League, I picked the San Francisco Giants to win the West. Then, I can boast that I picked the Washington Nationals to make the playoffs—although not even I was bold enough to say they'd win the East—and had them in one of the two expanded wild-card slots. Otherwise, though, I had the Milwaukee Brewers in the Central and the Los Angeles Dodgers as the other wild card. I never imagined Dusty Baker wouldn't find a way to screw up the Cincinnati Reds in the Central, and I never expected the Atlanta Braves to right themselves from last year's collapse to make the playoffs. So give me credit for two playoff teams, one in the right position, and I have the Giants to win the pennant, so I'm still alive for the bigger prize.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports Dunn looks to break through—to postseason
Posted By Ted Cox on 09.25.12 at 11:15 AM
- Paul Boucher
- Adam Dunn turned frowns upside down at Sox Park Monday
To wit: he is the active big-league leader in most games played without appearing in the postseason.
In that, he has good company here in Chicago. The top two all-time are Ernie Banks of the Cubs and Luke Appling of the White Sox.
For all the splendor of his comeback season this year, when he's hit barely above .200 but also clouted 39 homers going into Monday's game at White Sox Park against the Cleveland Indians, Dunn has looked as if he wanted to extend that record this fall.
He missed a key series with the Tigers with an injury to his side, and he's been ineffectual upon his return.
In fact, he struck out his first two times up Monday in a must-have game against the Tribe.
Then, however, he homered his last two times up to keep the Sox in the game in the sixth, down 3-2, then to put them ahead in the eighth with a three-run shot that put them up 5-3.
The Sox went on to win 5-4, to keep them a game ahead of the Detroit Tigers in the American League Central.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports White Sox magic numbers
Posted By Steve Bogira on 09.24.12 at 04:30 PM
- Johnny Sampson
- The great Adam Dunn
Adam Dunn, meantime, likely will fall short in his valiant pursuit of the big league single-season strikeout record. Dunn's 205 whiffs this year already is the third highest season total, and he'll almost certainly pass Mark Reynolds's 2010 mark of 211 for second place. He'll have to really get breezy, however, to break Reynolds's 2009 total of 223 Ks. But it isn't over till it's over.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports Checking in on baseball predictions
Posted By Ted Cox on 08.20.12 at 10:07 AM
- Paul Boucher
- Adam Dunn: Go ahead and gloat a little.
Especially when one gets to gloat—not to put the whammy on myself.
A quick look back at my opening day predictions shows I was stunningly prescient—at least so far—especially where the White Sox are concerned.
Not only did I have the Sox winning the American League Central—which they lead by a game and a half over Detroit—but I also had comeback kid Adam Dunn hitting more homers than the Tigers' freshly signed free agent Prince Fielder. Dunn now leads, 34 to 22.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports White Sox: it's all good
Posted By Ted Cox on 08.16.12 at 10:16 AM
- Wikimedia Commons
- Gramps has words for the White Sox: "It's all good."
The Sox took a 4-0 lead with the help of a homer by the returned Dewayne Wise, but Gavin Floyd all but squandered his own great stuff when he lost it in the sixth and gave up a game-tying homer to Kelly Johnson.
Adam Dunn saved the game, however, and gave Floyd the win, with a titanic three-run homer in the seventh, his majors-leading 34th and the 399th of his career, putting him on the brink of 400 (in math worthy of Sox radio announcer Ed Farmer).
But the high point came when Dayan Viciedo followed with a two-run shot to right field to complete the Sox's scoring for the night. After his usual call of "You can put it on the board, yes!" Sox TV announcer Ken "Hawk" Harrelson went positively Dylanesque, adding, "It's all good."
It is all good right now for the Sox, and I'll be examining the precise reasons why later this week.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports On to the second half of baseball season
Posted By Ted Cox on 07.13.12 at 10:48 AM
- Paul Boucher
- Adam Dunn and the White Sox trot smiling into the second half
The White Sox are in first place in the American League Central, nine games above .500 after their recent hot streak, and three games ahead of the second-place Cleveland Indians.
But only three and a half ahead of more-threatening Detroit, which issued a challenge over the All-Star break from Miguel Cabrera.
The Cubs helped awaken the sleeping Tigers, and they've been hot too, but then again their ace Justin Verlander just got lit up as the AL starter in the All-Star Game, and that's not easily shaken off.
I still like my wager that Adam Dunn will hit more homers than the Tigers' Prince Fielder, as he's up at the break 25-15. But Dunn may also break his own team record for strikeouts—before August is over.
As for the Cubs . . .
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports News Joy in Mudville: Adam Dunn connects!
Posted By Steve Bogira on 06.28.12 at 11:16 AM
- Johnny Sampson
- The Big Breeze couldn't miss yesterday
Dunn also didn't strike out. Not once, the whole game. Seriously. He hit fly balls the two times he was retired.
The Big Breeze hadn't gone deep—or medium, or shallow—since June 15. He'd had three singles in 36 at bats, with 21 whiffs. And he was still batting third in the Sox order.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports Cubs, White Sox scratch each others' backs
Posted By Ted Cox on 06.13.12 at 06:13 PM
- Keith Allison Wikimedia Commons
- Jhonny Peralta: get yourself a spell-check program
And they prefer it that way—at least, most of their fans do.
Yet this week's interleague play finds the Sox facing the Cubs' archrivals in Saint Louis, while the Cubs host the Detroit Tigers, the odds-on preseason choice to take the AL Central.
There's no doubt about whom the games mean more to. The Sox, in first place, need to beat the Cardinals and hope the Cubs don't lie down for the Tigers to put that sputtering team back on its feet.
The Cubs, meanwhile, are last in the NL Central, ahead of only the San Diego Padres in all of baseball, and trying simply to stave off a record for worst season in the team's history. They have little hope of catching the third-place Cards this year, much less the current division leaders, the Cincinnati Reds.
What's more, most Cubs fans would likely prefer the Cards beat the Sox to at least preserve some National League pride.
That's not how it's working out, however; at least not at first.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports World Series rematch not a mismatch
Posted By Ted Cox on 06.09.12 at 01:21 PM
- Keith Allison Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Sale acts as Sox stopper Saturday.
Just as the original was.
The Sox came into the interleague series still fairly fresh from a nine-game winning streak and atop the AL Central. The Houston Astros, whom they of course swept in 2005, were in fifth place in the NL Central, with only the Cubs keeping them out of the cellar.
Yet what's that Harry Caray used to say about the utter unpredictability of baseball? Sometimes it's a delightful surprise, and sometimes it'll bite one on the rear. Sox starter Gavin Floyd made a few bad pitches, and the bullpen threw some logs on the fire for an 8-3 loss Friday night.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports Mea culpa time for Adam Dunn haters
Posted By Steve Bogira on 05.30.12 at 01:37 PM
- Keith Allison
- Why don't the Adam Dunn critics acknowledge their mistake?
The White Sox vaulted into first place last night with their seventh straight win—and Dunn has helped lead them to the top. He's tied for second in the American League with 16 homers, and he's sixth in RBI with 37. His two-run, 448-foot blast on Memorial Day lifted the Sox to a 2-1 victory. He's been doing that kind of thing most of the season.
