White Sox: Chicago plays a day-night doubleheader in Detroit on Monday.
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Carlos Rodon allowed one run while pitching into the eighth inning and the Chicago White Sox defeated the sloppy Cleveland Indians 4-3 on Saturday night. White Sox OF Melky Cabrera’s next home run will be the 100th of his career.
Chicago White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez loses control of the…
Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Cody Anderson delivers to a Chicago White Sox batter during the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, September 18, 2015, in Cleveland. No one would blame Chicago’s left-hander for being happy about that.
Rodon (8-6) allowed one run and six hits in 7 2-3 innings.
“They weren’t as aggressive early in their at-bats as they were the last couple of days, and I wasn’t able to force them to swing”, Danks said. “Give them credit for that”.
Lindor, who had an infield hit in the first, homered to right to lead off the seventh, his 10th of the season.
Santana slugged an 0-1 pitch deep into the bleachers in left. In five innings, he threw 102 pitches and was charged with three runs (two earned) on four hits, with nine strikeouts and two walks. Indians 12, White Sox 1. “They made him work. He’s been very accurate, throwing his pitches in the right spot and where he wants to put it”.
“No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep your chin up”, Sale said.
Anderson’s lone blemish was a solo home run off the bat of Cabrera in the fifth inning.
Mike Aviles got the Indians on the board with an rbi single to center that went off the tip of Sanchez’s glove, it was 1-0 tribe. “It looked like he was ready for it. It didn’t fool him too much”.
Chicago White Sox relief pitcher David Robertson reacts after… Surprisingly, he gave up a rare third walk in the same game (to Abreu) in the 5th, before being removed after allowing a two-out double (to Ramirez again) in the 6th. Abreu is hitting.333 (25 for 75) with six homers and 15 RBIs in 19 games against the Indians this season.
“Saler realizes that expectations are high, so anytime he doesn’t get a no-hitter, people don’t understand it”, White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “We’ve got a lot to play for this last two weeks”.
Cleveland gave itself an extra cushion with three doubles in the sixth inning off Putnam.
Matt Adam hit Gary Owens on a 33-yard scoring strike with 41 seconds remaining and Indiana State held on to take a 29-28 victory over Southeast Missouri State on Saturday.
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Cleveland’s only run in the first eight innings came on a sacrifice fly by Gomes in the fourth. Danks entered the game with a.209 average against when facing lefties.
