Guillen takes offense to fourth-inning stolen base

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen didn't appreciate the fact Florida's Brett Carroll stole a base in the fourth inning with the Marlins already leading 7-0 Sunday.

Thus, Carroll was plunked just below the knee in his next at-bat in the fifth inning by Sox reliever Randy Williams.

"This is baseball. You have to respect," Guillen said. "I was up by 8 (runs) a couple days ago, and that's just the way we learned how to play the game. We had to do something about it, and we did.

"We just told the guys not to play like that. Especially when the team is last in hitting and runs scored in the American League. With a (7)-run lead they think we're going to come back next inning?"

The Sox indeed have the lowest team batting aveage in the A.L (.237), but their 177 runs scored rank 10th out of 14 teams.

Florida manager Fredi Gonzalez told Florida reporters Carroll had missed a sign.

"(Leading) 7-0, it's not a good thing to steal a base," said Sox starting pitcher Freddy Garcia. "No respect for the other team. Whatever happened, happened. But (up) 7 runs and you go and steal second or steal third? That's bad baseball."

In the seventh inning, Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski was beaned just above the elbow. Was it Florida's retaliation for Guillen's retaliation?

"I don't think he was trying to hit me," Pierzynski said diplomatically, his elbow wrapped in ice. "He just threw it inside and it got away."

Caught on tape: Video may have killed the radio star, but it helped one White Sox star.

Closer Bobby Jenks was clocked at 98 mph in the ninth inning against the Marlins on Saturday, his best velocity of the season. Jenks said before Sunday's interleague series finale he was able to correct a mechanical flaw that was hindering his speed, thanks to a recent video review session.

"We went down and looked at a lot of video and saw what I was doing. Mechanically, I wasn't right, and we fixed those little flaws and it got me back on track," Jenks said.

The problem was occurring as Jenks came out of his windup, he said. He was over-rotating his right foot as he got set, which "closed me off." That made it hard to paint the outside corner "because I was already locked up. I was closed off to the side."

Jenks said he was able to trace the flaw back to his fourth appearance of the season.

"You know, it's small things like that. Maybe you don't know you're creating the bad habit playing catch and you take it into the game. You don't know when it happens. That's why video is so important: to be able to go in there when things aren't going your way and see it.

"Feel is one thing, but if you don't know what you're feeling, you can't fix it right away. But if you can see it, you get results like (Saturday), when you're up there and you're back to your old self. And it's just a simple fix, so minor that you just wish you would have caught it sooner."

Jenks retired the side in order in the ninth on Saturday to earn his seventh save. He did not pitch Sunday as the Sox were routed 13-0.