Sox' offense again comes up short

"I always say 'Good teams win games; bad teams have meetings,' " White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said before Wednesday night's game against the Angels at U.S. Cellular Field. "We've already had two."

And the way they're going, the Sox are going to have many, many more.

Given an all-around vote of confidence by general manager Kenny Williams - who called the 25-minute meeting - and looking for their first two-game winning streak since April 24-25, the White Sox got another brilliant effort from starting pitcher John Danks.

But they also got another lame effort from the offense in a 3-2 loss to Los Angeles.

"It's not easy sitting here every day and trying to come up with stuff for you guys," Guillen said in his postgame news conference. "I'm not that smart, my English is not that good, and I come here and tell you guys the same thing day in and day out and it gets boring."

Danks and relievers Tony Pena and Scott Linebrink held the Angels to 3 hits, and one of them was a 2-run homer by Torii Hunter.

It was a mistake pitch by Danks on a 2-0 count, a changeup that was up in the zone, but the offense again failed to pick him up.

Danks (3-3) has remained positive, but he's lost his last three starts despite allowing 7 earned runs in 212/3 innings.

"I'm trying to give us a chance to win," Danks said. "You know, it will turn around for us. It has to. We're way too talented to keep on losing games like this. It is frustrating, but at the same time it's just baseball, too. We've been on the winning side of this, too."

Alexei Ramirez struck out with the tying run on second base to end the game, but Guillen said failing to score in the sixth inning off L.A. starter Joe Saunders (3-5) in the sixth inning was the real killer.

With runners on second and third and one out, Andruw Jones swung at Saunders' first pitch and popped out. After Paul Konerko walked to load the bases, Alex Rios flied out to end the threat.

"We outhit them 6-3 and found a way to lose," A.J. Pierzynski said. "It's a shame the way (Danks) is throwing the ball, he should have 5, 6 or 7 wins. You have to keep fighting and I think we are doing a good job of that. You just want to see some results every once in a while."

Rotation change: Mark Buehrle was originally scheduled to start against the Angels tonight, but Jake Peavy is going to get the ball. With John Danks pitching Wednesday, the Sox didn't want two left-handers pitching consecutive games, so the switch was made. Buehrle goes against the Marlins on Friday.