Tonight, the White Sox led the Red Sox 2-0 after 7. Boston had been no-hit for over 6 innings, so obviously wasn’t hitting or scoring (they ended up with 4 hits). They didn’t score with a bases-loaded one-out situation in the 7th. In the eighth, they had first-and-third, one out, down 2-1, with Ortiz up. The one run Boston scored was the result of an error, not a hit. Friends say you shouldn’t squeeze with Ortiz for the same reason you wouldn’t squeeze with Cabrera (Tigers–see previous posts) in similar situations, and that’s why those strategies and the White Sox’ opponents continue to lose. Of course Ortiz hit into a double play, and they didn’t score. The momentum of not scoring contributed to the White Sox scoring a big insurance run in the bottom of the 8th (that and the idiocy of giving Rios anything to hit). So, once again, people can say how ridiculous it would be to squeeze with a power hitter in a situation where the team not only wasn’t hitting or scoring but the inning before didn’t score bases-loaded, one out, and once again, I’ll say that these managers can keep explaining losses with their traditional logic that doesn’t work.