Adam Dunn FTW!

Great Dunn quote: "You know you (stink) when you go 1-for-2 and they act like the world is ending….—
Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) May 22, 2011

… I can't wait to see the balloons outside and I'm sure there will be a parade."—
Scott Merkin (@scottmerkin) May 22, 2011

More Dunn:

“I’m expanding my zone early in the count and that’s getting me in trouble,” he said. “I’m going to fix it. It’s just a matter of how or when. It’s one of those things sitting around pouting about it, moping around about it isn’t going to change anything.

“I don’t want the guy sitting on the hill throwing me pitches to realize it. I want him to look at me and go, ‘Man, this is still a dangerous guy, I don’t care what he’s hitting.’ And if you’ve got that bad body language like you’re pouting or something, what’s that going to solve?”

Other White Sox links: J.J. has a plan to get Adam Dunn on track, James looks on Brent Lillibridge and how he should be used, Jim looks on Gavin Floyd’s hot start, and Brett Ballantini writes about Omar Vizquel’s awesomeness.

Edwin Jackson’s slider was good; Sox 4 games below .500

Sox at 22-26:

Chi White Sox	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jackson, E(W, 4-5)	5.2	5	1	1	2	7	0	4.26
Sale	0.1	2	2	2	1	1	0	6.32
Crain(H, 7)	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2.45
Thornton(S, 2)	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	5.17
Totals	9.0	8	3	3	4	10	0	3.90

Big day for Alexei: a single, two doubles and a homer. And Dunn goes 1/2 with 3 walks.

Pitch F/X for Edwin Jackson:

Pitch Statistics
Pitch Type	Avg Speed	Max Speed	Avg H-Break	Avg V-Break	Count	Strikes / %	Swinging Strikes / %	Linear Weights	Time to Plate
FF (FourSeam Fastball)	95.47	98.4	-3.09	7.19	52	26 / 50.00%	2 / 3.85%	-0.1152	0.394
CH (Changeup)	84.40	84.4	-8.60	3.79	1	1 / 100.00%	0 / 0.00%	-0.0504	0.456
SL (Slider)	89.67	95.5	0.12	1.44	52	40 / 76.92%	8 / 15.38%	-1.1442	0.419
FT (TwoSeam Fastball)	94.30	94.7	-5.79	5.59	2	1 / 50.00%	0 / 0.00%	0.0071	0.399
Pitch classifications provided by the Gameday Algorithm and may be inaccurate. Pitch Type LWTS correspond to how many runs were likely to score on a particular pitch based on average run expectancy when each pitch was thrown and what happened as a result. Negative scores indicate more effective pitches. Time to Plate is the time, in seconds, that it takes an average pitch of this type to reach the plate. This is strongly correlated with velocity, but also factors in movement.

Inning-by-Inning Pitch Totals
Inning	Pitches in Inning	Strikes in Inning	Strike% in Inning	Cumulative Total Pitches	Pitch LWTS in Inning
1	16	11	68.75	16	-0.862
2	12	7	58.33	28	-0.561
3	16	13	81.25	44	-0.575
4	18	12	66.67	62	-0.344
5	31	18	58.06	93	0.795
6	14	7	50.00	107	0.244

Dayan Viciedo hits 2 more home runs

5/22:

Charlotte Knights
Player	Pos	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Viciedo	DH	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	.313

Viciedo: .313/.359/.524/.883 with 12 BB and 30 K in 166 AB.