Billy Koch

He doesn't want your sympathy. And it doesn't sound as if he'll get it at Wrigley Field any time soon. No, LaTroy Hawkins is intent on pursuing his career on his terms, with no particular desire to avoid or deal with the boos that seem to greet him in...

Blame everybody. Just spread it around like fertilizer after the White Sox choked another home win Monday night. Blame the manager. Ozzie Guillen removed Mark Buehrle from his best start of the season: eight innings of two-hit ball on 99 pitches in a 1-0...

Major League Baseball doesn't keep records on stuff such as this, but it's safe to say that in the last 10 or 20 years, very few starting pitchers have given up seven runs, five hits, three walks and a wild pitch in one inning and come out to pitch the...

With a steady rain early in the game, and the threat of storms throughout the night, the White Sox extended a courtesy to the 11,210 at U.S. Cellular Field Thursday. They didn't wait until their last at-bat to produce another come-from-behind victory....

Are there any closers out there that the Sox could pick up? I am ready to see Billy Koch get out of town right now. Considering Keith Foulke is an All-Star and never should have been traded, the least Kenny Williams can do is go out and get someone who...

It would be easy to say Brian Daubach made a big splash Thursday night. It would be true too. Daubach, making his first start in six games, became the first player this season to hit a home run into the pool beyond the right-field fence at Bank One...

Many White Sox fans cheered Sunday when the scoreboard at U.S. Cellular Field posted St. Louis' 1-0 victory over the Cubs. One inning later, Sox fans had more to celebrate, a 3-2 triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays to cap a winning homestand and vault the...

Tribune baseball expert Phil Rogers has picked an All-City team the last five years to kick off the Cubs-Sox interleague series. It's fair to say that Phil's selections haven't always hit it off with the public — seems there's disagreement about who ought...

Jose Valentin dropped his bat and threw his arms in the air. He knew it. "I didn't try to mock anybody," Valentin said of the celebration that followed his game-winning home run. "But when you've been swinging the bat like I have, you better enjoy it."...

Before Thursday's 4-3 White Sox victory, manager Ozzie Guillen was asked—yet again—if Billy Koch was his closer. "Yes, right now he is," Guillen said—yet again. And—yet again—when it came time for the closer to come into a game to nail down a victory in...

The White Sox are still searching for a fifth starter. But at least they discovered a way to win a game in Anaheim. Neal Cotts struggled in his major-league debut. And that's putting it kindly. But Dan Wright, who lost his spot in the rotation to Cotts,...

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was eager to see how his team would react after a devastating loss in the season opener, when the Kansas City Royals scored six runs in the ninth inning. "We're going to see what [we're made of]," Guillen said Wednesday....