You always have to check opponents rosters to be familliar with the left-handed relievers who could be used to try to slow down Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau and Jason Kubel.  The White Sox have four of them

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen brought in lefthanders Clayton Richard and Boone Logan in the middle innings on Tuesday - with bad results.

Mauer singled of a 1-2 pitch from Richard to open the fifth. Morneau smoked the next pitch for a RBI double. Even Brian Buscher came through with a sacrifice fly to score a run.

Logan faced three batters in the seventh. He got Morneau to ground out, but left an off speed pitch over  the middle of the plate to Kubel, who turned it into his second homer of the game. Then Delmon Young hit the next pitch out to left.

“Clayton looked good,” Guillen said. “Logan looked the same way he has all year long. It’s hard for us to put that guy there.”

I’m guessing Ozzie meant to say it was a tough situation for Logan to be in.

 Guillen also has lefties Horacio Ramirez and Matt Thornton in the bullpen. Thornton, who has a 2.00 ERA this month,  is one of Guillen’s weapons to lock down late-inning leads. Guillen needs all his lefties to step up in this series - but they didn’t on Tuesday.

For more Sox news, here’s the Chicago Tribune’s notebook from Tuesday’s game.

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