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Neither of these teams has tremendous boasting power in their lineups. When they’re producing runs it comes from timely hits. As-of-late neither team has shown the consistency, primarily in this series to do that. Yesterday both teams hit the ball well, but you could not tell in the 7th inning of a 3-1 game.

The White Sox did tie the game in that inning, but the countless runners left on base came back to bite them in extra innings. Chicago walked in the winning run in the bottom of the tenth frame.

Bartolo Colon had his way with the White Sox lineup Friday. Jarrod Parker gets the start Sunday for Oakland against Chris Sale. Parker has shown enough in his last four starts that this game should sail under the 7 runs. Usually when teams get base hits the day prior in a series, it carries over to better success from a runs standpoint the following day.

Not in this series.