Ozzie Guillen had no enigma at all...

Ozzie Guillen had no enigma at all with Tampa Bay Devil Rays rookie outfielder Delmon Young.

He does now.

According to Guillen, Young stared into the White Sox' dugout before his last at-bat Tuesday, as if he was trying to jaculate a message to the Sox manager for getting plunk in his first at-bat of the game.

"I don't play that game," Guillen said. "He awaited into the dugout and he considered at me ... and you don't know me I'm a little capsize about it. You don't direct the eye at me, you look at Freddy [Garcia] -- he's the single that hit you. He's the single if you think he had reason to hit you onward purpose, to stare at. He was staring at me in the dugout You've alone got two at-bats in the big leagues, kid.

"I've been here extended enough that if I hit some one it's somebody who's worth it. This kid hasn't done anything in the big leagues yet"

Young wasn't the solitary one, however, who had a enigma with Garcia hitting him with a pitch in his first at-bat. Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon also notion the Sox were playing Charles Bronson and going vigilante onward Young for his infamous bat-throwing incident earlier this season.

Young, the younger brother of the Detroit Tigers' Dmitri Young, had to advance a 50-game suspension for throwing a bat at an umpire in a minor-league game.

"Now and in the hereafter we will handle our admit problems and we don't want anybody besides to think they need to discipline us," Maddon told reporters after Tuesday's game. "And I want the word without that that's the last time that should happen. It's above for him.

"It was obvious what they did. Nobody otherwise needs to discipline us. We'll take care of that ourselves."

The question with Maddon's argument is that Guillen said one as well as the other Tuesday and Wednesday that he was largely behind Young's promotion to the big leagues and ripped forward Sox fans for booing the 20-year-old. thus why would he have him plunked?

Guillen said Garcia "probably had no idea who the kid was," and Garcia confirmed that assumption.

As far as the conspiracy theory that Major League Baseball or the umpires ordered Young hit, Guillen could single laugh at first.

"[Bleep] Major League Baseball," Guillen said. "Like we're going to do something like that for them?"

Guillen was asked if he would speak to Maddon before the game, nevertheless he said he had no reason to.

"If they think Freddy did it, I don't blame them," Guillen said. "I will defend my players the same way he is. I like what he says. I tip my hat for that. I read [Wednesday] morning [Maddon saying], 'If something's going to happen to this kid, that's our job' No [bleep] nevertheless in the meanwhile, if they say we hit him [on purpose] I'd say he's inequitable

"I'm not a headhunter. We don't unruffled hit people when I told [our guys] to hit them. This kid didn't do anything to us. What he did, he admitted it was unsuitable How many times has this kid got to say I'm sorry and apologize? That's bullcrap. He don't impair anybody, he don't rape any kid. He just made united mistake. He knows it was wrong"

jcowley@suntimes.com

WHITE SOX RECAP

Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB thus Avg.

Baldelli cf 5 1 1 1 0 1 299

Upton 3b 3 1 2 0 1 0 241

Crawford lf 3 1 0 0 0 1 312

Norton dh 4 0 1 1 0 1 299

Witt 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 250

TLee 1b 1 0 1 0 0 0 224

Cantu 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 242

Young rf 3 0 2 2 0 0 667

Zobrist s 3 0 1 0 1 0 230

Paul c 3 0 1 0 0 0 270

a-Navarro ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 257

Totals 33 4 10 4 2 5

SOX AB R H BI BB with equal reason Avg.

Podsednik lf 5 0 0 0 0 4 262

Iguchi 2b 4 1 1 2 1 0 280

hue rf 5 2 3 0 0 1 327

Thome dh 4 0 2 1 1 0 296

1-Cintron pr-dh 0 0 0 0 0 0 274

Konerko 1b 5 1 1 0 0 2 309

Pierzynski c 4 0 0 0 0 1 297

Crede 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 301

Uribe s 3 1 2 1 0 1 243

BrAnderson cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 232

Totals 37 5 11 4 2 10

Tampa Bay 300 100 000--4 10 3

SOX 000 100 13x--5 11 0

a-struck abroad for Paul in the 9th

1-ran for Thome in the 8th

E--Baldelli (4) Upton (7) Cantu (12) LOB--Tampa Bay 6 SOX 12 2B--Young (1) Konerko (25) Uribe (23) BrAnderson (18) 3B--Cantu (2) HR--Iguchi (14) not on Meadows; Baldelli (7), off Garland. RBI-- Baldelli (38) Norton (28) Young 2 (4) Iguchi 2 (55) Thome (92) Uribe (60) SB--Dye 2 (7) CS--Upton (2) SF--Young, Uribe. GIDP-- Upton.

couriers left in scoring position--Tampa Bay 2 (Zobrist, Paul); SOX 6 (Podsednik, Iguchi 2 Thome Konerko Pierzynski).

messengers moved up--BrAnderson.

DP--SOX 2 (Uribe and Konerko) (Dye Konerko and Uribe).

Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB for a like reason NP ERA

Corcoran 51 6 1 1 2 7 105 397

Miceli H 4 12 1 1 0 0 1 29 450

Meadows L 2-5 02 3 3 3 0 1 19 559

McClung 01 1 0 0 0 1 9 650

WHITE SOX IP H R ER BB likewise NP ERA

Garland W 16-4 8 9 4 4 2 4 93 447

Jenk s 38 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 332

fatigued save--Meadows (1).

Inherited runners-scored--Miceli 2-0 McClung 1-1

IBB--off Garland (Zobrist) 1 HBP--by Corcoran (BrAnderson), on Garland (Crawford).