Let’s pretend that you are Lance Broadway. It is a Thursday night in Chicago at the end of September. You are playing for the Chicago White Sox and it is your first Major League career start. How would you like it to go?
I think it went exactly how Lance Broadway would have wanted it to go, if not better. This 24-year-old had a reason to smile after the White Sox 10-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Why should he have been so happy? Well I don’t know… maybe because this right-handed pitcher had six shutout innings in his first Major League start. Broadway barely ran into any trouble, but when he did, like in the 2nd inning, for instance when he had two runners on base and no out, he immediately got out of trouble by striking out the next three batters.
He pitched just 97 pitches over the course of those six remarkable innings, striking out eight Royals and allowing just two hits. Not too bad, huh? I think not. And for those of you who are interested in an even more impressive fact, those eight strikeouts were the most any White Sox pitcher has made in his first start since 1988.
Lance Broadway, who came from Texas Christian University, was the White Sox top pick in 2005 and the White Sox plan on him being a big contribution to the team in the following seasons.
Broadway’s shutout was the 2nd straight by the White Sox pitchers. The previous one came from Jon Garland on Wednesday. In the last 9 games, the South Siders’ pitching staff has a record of 6-3 with an ERA of 2.79.
Since the White Sox season is nearing a close very quickly, predictions for next year? I have a feeling that the Sox’s pitching will do just fine, if they continue from where they left off (especially if its anything like what they have shown over the last few weeks!)
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