John Garland's gotta be the next guy out of the pen if this goes much farther for the White Sox... his day to do side pitching, unless you're gonna go with tomorrow's starter Contreras instead... nobody left in the pen.
Twins still have Mulholland, who should be able to throw 3 innings, and Joe Nathan in the pen. They can go 20 innings if they have to. White Sox are all out of bullets in the gun... It's really bottom of the 16th or big big trouble down the line for this team, as then it's the decision whether to pitch Contreras or Garland early, probably meaning a AAA pitcher is going to be up either tomorrow or the next day for the Sox if it goes any longer than 16.
Twins still have Mulholland, who should be able to throw 3 innings, and Joe Nathan in the pen. They can go 20 innings if they have to. White Sox are all out of bullets in the gun... It's really bottom of the 16th or big big trouble down the line for this team, as then it's the decision whether to pitch Contreras or Garland early, probably meaning a AAA pitcher is going to be up either tomorrow or the next day for the Sox if it goes any longer than 16.
Of course, if I'm the White Sox, I might strongly strongly consider just trying to ditch this game soon... I'm a billion games up in the division and no one's catching me. It's one game, and keeping my rotation in tact is more important to me than winning this game. I don't want to hurt my arms for the playoff run because of a marathon game... so losing this one wouldn't be so bad for the Sox right now. Twins have no choice but to pull out the stops. Besides, the Twins bullpen guys have thrown a ton of pitches (with the exception being Rincon), and these guys can't be available for long tomorrow... at least the White Sox guys have, for the most part, thrown a reasonable number of innings and all of the key guys will be available to pitch tomorrow if need be.
arty:
