White Sox 5, Blue Jays 4: Jose Abreu homered twice and Dayan Viciedo and Alexei Ramirez also went deep as visiting Chicago held on to even the four-game series at a game apiece.
The White Sox did all their scoring on home runs as they won for only the second time in their last 12 road games. John Danks (7-6) allowed two runs and five hits over six innings to earn the win and Jake Petricka recorded the final two outs to get out of a jam and notch his second save.
Edwin Encarnacion and Dioner Navarro hit back-to-back homers in the sixth and Colby Rasmus led off the ninth with a blast for Toronto. R.A. Dickey (6-7) racked up a season-high nine strikeouts and surpassed 1,000 in his career but also was tagged for five runs and five hits — four of them homers — in six innings.
Abreu led off the fifth with his 24th homer -- tying Encarnacion and Baltimore's Nelson Cruz for the major-league lead -- and Viciedo went deep later in the inning for a 2-0 lead. Encarnacion regained the league lead when he and Navarro went back-to-back in the sixth to tie it, but Abreu tied him again with his 25th blast in the seventh.
Ramirez pulled a deep drive just inside the left-field foul pole later in the inning for a two-run blast to make it 5-2. Rasmus led off the ninth with an opposite-field blast off closer Ronald Belisario, who also surrendered back-to-back singles to Munenori Kawasaki and Anthony Gose before Petricka got Jose Reyes to bounce into a run-scoring fielder's choice and retired Melky Cabrera to strand the tying run at third.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Abreu joined Atlanta's Bob Horner (1978) as the only players in major-league history with four multi-homer games over their first 67 career games. … The four homers were the most Dickey has allowed since giving up six versus Detroit on April 6, 2006. … Blue Jays RF Jose Bautista (hamstring) missed his fifth straight game.
Chi. White Sox | Toronto | |
John Danks | Player | R.A. Dickey |
Win | W/L | Loss |
6.0 | IP | 6.0 |
2 | Strikeouts | 9 |
5 | Hits | 5 |
3.00 | ERA | 7.50 |
Chi. White Sox | Toronto | |
Jose Abreu | Player | Munenori Kawasaki |
2 | Hits | 2 |
2 | RBI | 0 |
2 | HR | 0 |
8 | TB | 2 |
.667 | Avg | .667 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Chi. White Sox | 8 | 4 | 20 | .229 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Toronto | 9 | 3 | 20 | .243 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |