Sat, 07/24/2010 - 10:15 by Rakhi
Oakland, Calif. -- Mark Buehrle went the distance for a second straight start Friday, allowing four hits and lifting the Chicago White Sox to a 5-1 victory over Oakland.
Buehrle (9-8) pitched nine innings in his previous start, taking the loss in a 3-2 decision to Minnesota.
He took a shutout into the seventh Friday before Oakland produced its only run on back-to-back doubles from Kevin Kouzmanoff and Jack Cust.
The White Sox had lost four of their previous six, but the win Friday boosted them 2 1/2 games in front of second-place Detroit and three games ahead of Minnesota in the American League Central.
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Tue, 04/06/2010 - 09:50 by Pankaj Damin
Chicago -- Mark Buehrle gave up just three hits over seven innings Monday in carrying the Chicago White Sox to a 6-0 win over Cleveland.
Paul Konerko hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Alex Rios added a solo shot in the eighth, helping the White Sox win a season opening contest for the fifth time in six years.
Buehrle, who threw a perfect game last July, added three strikeouts, walked one and made a dazzling defensive play in which he grabbed the ball along the first base line and, with his back to the bag, flipped the ball between his legs in time to get the runner.
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Thu, 10/01/2009 - 08:04 by harsheeb
Cleveland, Sept. 30 -- Mark Buehrle and two relievers combined on a four-hit shutout Wednesday, helping the Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland 1-0 for a doubleheader split.
The game's only run scored on Paul Konerko's two-out single in the top of the sixth.
Buehrle (13-10) gave up three hits in six innings. Reliever Tony Pena allowed one hit in two innings and Matt Thornton pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his fourth save this season, for Chicago, which won twice in the three-game series.
Losing pitcher Justin Masterson (4-10) went the distance, giving up a run and four hits with two walks and 12 strikeouts.
The doubleheader split came on the day that the Indians told Manager Eric Wedge and his coaching staff they would be fired at season's end.
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Thu, 09/24/2009 - 09:56 by shalini.bahadur
Chicago, Sept. 24: Nick Punto helped Minnesota build a five-run lead Wednesday and the Twins kept pace in the division pennant race by downing the Chicago White Sox 8-6.
Punto drove in three runs and scored twice in Minnesota's third straight win and their ninth in 10 outings. The Twins remained 2 1/2 games behind Detroit in the chase for the American League Central crown.
Detroit has 11 games remaining and Minnesota has 10. The teams are scheduled to meet four times next week in Detroit.
Punto scored on a single by Orlando Cabrera in the third, and then doubled home a run in the fourth while the Twins were taking a 5-0 advantage. He also had a two-run single as part of a three-run seventh that gave the Twins an 8-4 lead.
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Sat, 09/19/2009 - 11:40 by shalini.bahadur
Chicago, Sept. 19: Miguel Olivo drove in a career-high six runs Friday with the help of a pair of two-run homers, carrying Kansas City to an 11-0 rout of the Chicago White Sox.
Luke Hochevar (7-10) coasted to his second complete game and the first shutout of his three-year major league career.
Olivo drew a bases-loaded walk in the third, hit his first two-run homer in the fourth, delivered a sacrifice fly in the seventh and homered again in the eighth. Kansas City pounded out 13 hits.
Hochevar allowed just three hits -- a lead-off single to Dewayne Wise in the third, an infield single to Scott Podsednik in the sixth and another infield single by Chris Getz in the eighth.
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 06:11 by harsheeb
Chicago -- Mark Buehrle pitched into the eighth inning Monday for his first win since his perfect game and the Chicago White Sox beat Boston 5-1.
Buehrle (12-7), who was 0-4 in his last eight starts, allowed one run on eight hits and two walks in seven-plus innings.
Mark Kotsay had two hits and two RBI and Carlos Quentin had a two-run homer, as Chicago won for the fifth time in six games.
Kevin Youkilis drove in Boston's only run.
Josh Beckett (14-6) remained winless in his last five starts, allowing three runs on six hits and two walks in seven innings.
The loss dropped the Red Sox to 8 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East. Boston leads Texas by 2 1/2 games in the AL wild-card chase.
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Tue, 08/18/2009 - 11:00 by Jaspreet Virk
Chicago, Aug. 18: Scott Podsednik drove in the winning run in the eighth inning Monday and the Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City 8-7, despite blowing a three-run lead.
The White Sox were ahead 7-4 when the Royals' Mike Jacobs tied the score with a pinch-hit three-run home run in the top of the eighth. Alex Rios led off the home half of the eighth with a walk, took second on a sacrifice bunt by Alexei Ramirez and then scored the go-ahead run on Podsednik's one-out single.
Jayson Nix and A.J. Pierzynski each hit a two-run homer and Podsednik drove in a run with a double in the fourth for Chicago, which won for the third time in its last four games.
Mark Buehrle started for the White Sox, allowing four runs on nine hits in six innings.
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Sat, 08/08/2009 - 10:20 by preet_20
Chicago, Aug. 7: Kelly Shoppach hit his eighth and ninth homers of the season Friday in Cleveland's third straight win -- a 6-2 decision over the Chicago White Sox.
Chicago slipped three games behind Detroit in the battle for the lead in the American League Central.
Shoppach produced a two-run shot in the second that gave the Indians a 3-0 lead and hit a solo homer in the fourth that put Cleveland in front 5-2. He also drove in the final run of the game with a sixth-inning single.
The Indians won for the 10th time in 14 outings, but remain 11 1/2 games out of the division lead.
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Wed, 07/29/2009 - 11:54 by surajdogra
Minneapolis, July 28: Mark Buehrle set a major league record Tuesday with 45 consecutive batters retired before his streak was halted by a walk.
The Chicago White Sox star pitcher, who had a perfect game in his last previous start, retired the first 17 batters Tuesday against the Minnesota Twins before Alexi Casilla took a low 3-2 fastball for a walk with two outs in the sixth inning.
Denard Span followed with a single to center and Joe Mauer hit a tying ground-rule double to left field before Buehrle retired Justin Morneau on a grounder to end the inning.
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Wed, 07/29/2009 - 10:49 by surajdogra
Minneapolis, July 28: Mark Buehrle was 10 outs from his second straight perfect game but Minnesota then pounced on the Chicago White Sox left-hander and won 5-3.
Buehrle had retired a record 45 straight batters with two outs in the sixth. But Buehrle (11-4) wound up giving up five runs on five hits in 6 1/3 innings. Twins pitcher Scott Baker gave up just one run on four hits in six innings.
Jermaine Dye hit a solo homer and Gordon Beckham had two RBI with a single in the ninth for the White Sox.
Jose Mijares (1-2) gave up a hit in 1 2/3 innings for the victory and Joe Nathan retired the final batter to pick up his 28th save.
Nick Punto had two RBI for the Twins, who have won three in a row.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Tue, 07/28/2009 - 02:37 by surajdogra
New York -- Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle was named the American League Player of the Week Monday for hurling a perfect game.
Buehrle, a four-time All-Star, threw his gem July 23 in a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.
It was only the 18th unblemished game in modern Major League Baseball history and the first since Randy Johnson did it for Arizona against Atlanta in 2004.
Other AL players considered for this week's honor were Cleveland's Cliff Lee, who went 2-0 with a 1.69 earned run average, the Los Angeles Angels' Erick Aybar, who rapped a league-high 14 hits, and Toronto's Aaron Hill, who hit .346 with four homers.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:47 by preet_20
Chicago, July 8: Paul Konerko smacked three home runs Tuesday, including a grand slam in the sixth inning, to carry the Chicago White Sox past Cleveland 10-6.
The seven RBI for the game were a career best for Konerko, who has seven homers in his past 13 games.
Mark Buehrle (9-2) went seven innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and striking out three while remaining unbeaten in his last six starts.
Grady Sizemore belted two home runs for the Indians, who lost for the seventh time in their last nine games. Shin-soo Choo added a solo shot.
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