A few items of note on this Thursday afternoon:

Chris Getz has an oblique injury.

The Sox are placing him on the 15-day DL, and bringing Brent Lillibridge up from Charlotte. Jayson Nix will take over as the everyday second baseman. Getz is hitting .250 in the month of August and has played in nine game. Nix is hitting .261 in the month of August and has played in eight, thanks to the Alexei Ramirez injury which allowed him to play some games at shortstop. Considering Nix has seen some playing time as of late and his defense has been solid this year, the Sox shouldn’t expect much of a dropoff in production.

Charting the 1959 White Sox.

I’m not much of a Sox history buff — I don’t even play one on the Internet — but even I found the above link at Cybermetrics pretty interesting. Looks like a good lot of that team’s successful season had to do with some serious luck: their RISP stats as opposed to their opponents is quite striking.

Last night’s game.

I feel for the Sox beat writer stuck in the box press after 12 a.m. Chicago time. I gave up after the Sox’ half of the twelfth. I had a feeling it would not end well. Thanks to Ken Griffey Jr., Scott Podsednik getting picked off third and the Sox’ inability to capitalize with RISP — that  ‘59 team would have won last night’s game! — they lost 1-0.

If there’s a silver lining, it’s that the Sox’ staff — including Mark Buehrle, who has struggled as of late after his perfect work — kept an opponent scoreless for 13 straight innings in one game.

It was the first time the Mariners have ever been held scoreless that late into extras (12th inning) in the history of their franchise.