Coco Crisp tagged Rodon for a three-run homer in the sixth inning to break the game open and Cleveland beat the Chicago White Sox 6-1 on Wednesday night to remain six games ahead of Detroit in the AL Central.
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The opener against the White Sox will start a string of 13 straight April games against American League Central Division foes, as they follow the Chicago series with three contests against the Detroit Tigers before heading to Minnesota for a four-game set with the Twins and three games against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the game, but after two straight nights of watching the Indians get pounded, we deserve to talk about the dogs.
“I was really pleased the way he pitched tonight”.
The Chicago White Sox haven’t had a lot to brag about this season, but on Tuesday night they accomplished something that no sports team in the world has ever achieved.
Orioles 1, Red Sox 0: Mark Trumbo hit his major league-leading 42nd home run, Kevin Gausman outpitched Rick Porcello over eight innings and Baltimore pulled within a game of AL East-leading Boston. With two more in Chicago before the final homestand of the season begins on Friday, the dog days of summer (sorry, not sorry) have given way to the pennant race. I feel like half the dogs out there were singing it for some odd reason. “Then we’ll kind of re-evaluate what’s going on after that”, Francona said.
Indians RHP Trevor Bauer and White Sox LHP Jose Quintana get the ball Tuesday night. He went 0-5 with an 11.48 ERA in August before being taken out of the rotation.
Jose Quintana (12-10) held Cleveland to five hits over eight innings, including Brandon Guyer’s solo homer in the second in Chicago’s fifth win in seven games.
Avisail Garcia then delivered an RBI single, Sanchez tripled and Eaton doubled in a run in his second time up to end Dan Otero’s night. “He won’t be ready to catch every day, but having him back will be really nice”, manager Terry Francona said.
Tomlin won for the first time since July 30, when he was 11-3 with a 3.43 ERA. “If we have offense like this, you want to keep it going and not think too much about it”. In the hopes of setting a Guinness World Record, they needed at least 1000 dogs to stay in their outfield seats for a 10-minute period in the third inning to take home the certificate for the most dogs attending a sporting event.
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“He’s looking. a little bit better, but it’s still a little bit of a tweak where he can’t play”, Chicago manager Robin Ventura said Wednesday.
