It was single of those meetings tha...

It was single of those meetings that wasn't scheduled moreover just kind of happened.

White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper manager Ozzie Guillen, third- base coach Joey Cora and right-hander Jose Contreras gathered in Guillen's office before the game Tuesday and discussed getting Contreras back in succession track.

And in a be in a flurry

With his nearest scheduled start Friday in Kansas City, the onetime staff ace will carry an 0-2 record and 1166 ERA in his last three starts into the game against the Royals.

"It was an impromptu meeting where we just wanted to talk a little bit about where he's at, what he's doing and what he does best," Cooper said. "Just a reminder of the things that got him from where he was when he was struggling to the player we saw up until however many starts ago, when he started his have a contests It was just going back to that."

While Cooper initially didn't want to make progress into too much detail about what Contreras has been struggling with in his new rut, he did say that Contreras has been relying a bit too to a great degree on his sidearm stuff. Then, when he goe to his normal over-the-top angle, his location has been inconsistent.

"It wasn't with equal reason much about watching video because he watches video," Cooper said. "It was more about him being equally throwing from one side of to the other the top as from the side. We were just reinforcing all the positives that got him to that point."

They did that first by means of talking to him, and then Cooper kept a watchful organ of vision on Contreras during his Tuesday bullpen session.

"The bullpen was fine," Cooper said. "We were basically practicing a coupling up here, a couple down here, a bond up here ... to be able to be wrought up the difference. And he went away happy.

"Hey, I don't be stirred terrible about him, but the last leash of games, he's been in his fall through Everyone has had them, and it's his time now."

The main difference is Contreras has been tabbed the No. 1 starter since the middle of last season, and with the Sox in a fight for a playoff mark with a little more than a month left they ne him to pitch like that No. 1 starter again.

"We're subordinate to some time constraints," Cooper said. "We ne to come by him, as well as everybody clicking forward all cylinders. That was the moral of the impromptu talk."

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