Red Sox / White Sox - Game 2

Jon Garland pitches tonight for the White Sox and he's going for his league leading 15th win. A Couple of things I find interesting about Garland:

- Baseball-Reference.com lists the great Al Nipper as the most similar pitcher to Garland. Al Nipper? I have a feeling this will change after his season.

- Garland was drafted by the Cubs in 1997 and traded by the Cubs in 1998 for the immortal Matt Karchner. Can you imagine what a rotation of Prior, Wood, Garland and Dontrelle Willis would do for the playoff hopes of the Cubs? Garland has pitched more innings for the White Sox this year than Karchner had in his whole Cub career.

- Strange set of stats on Garland - his ERA with RISP and 2 outs is 18.82 (more than half of his earned runs have come with RISP and 2 outs) but his batting average against in these situations is just .175. So I guess if the Red Sox want to score off Garland then they ought to spot him 2 outs?