As usual, Konerko leading Sox's surge - Chicago White Sox Blog - ESPN Chicago

The Sox, after sweeping Atlanta this week, are 13-2 against the National League, the best interleague record in baseball. They've won nine in a row, 13 of their past 14 overall and they've gained seven games on first-place Minnesota in two weeks, pulling to within 2 and 1/2 games of the Twins.

How a team like the White Sox, who swept their third straight series, went from nine games under .500 on June 8 to three games over .500 in 14 games can only really be seized up by Konerko, the veteran team captain.

Paul Konerko was tied for third in the AL with 17 homers before crushing his 18th Thursday, ranked fourth in the AL with 52 RBI and now is hitting .410 with 22 RBI over his past 21 games.

The White Sox bullpen including Mark Buehrle, John Danks, Jake Peavy, Gavin Floyd and even Freddy Garcia might as well be called Murder's Row.

They have gone 11-1 with a 2.03 ERA with 14 quality starts in the last 15 games. In those games, the starting pitchers have worked at least seven innings 11 times, have held opponents to two runs or fewer 11 times and are holding steady at a .207 opponents' batting average!

Floyd threw seven scoreless innings on Thursday against the Braves, striking out nine and walking just one. He only gave up two hits.
Gavin Floyd has been tremendous in his last four starts, and has posted a 0.93 ERA with a 31:7 K:BB ratio.

**If your looking for a SP and a win, Gavin Floyd is only owned in 57% of yahoo fantasy leagues.**