Rays 3, White Sox 1: David Price pitched his fifth career complete game and Luke Scott had a pair of hits as Tampa Bay completed a three-game sweep of visiting Chicago.
Price (3-4) allowed eight hits – seven of them singles – did not walk a batter and struck out five over 98 pitches to beat the White Sox for the second time in 2013. Sean Rodriguez, Ben Zobrist and Jose Molina each knocked in a run for the Rays, who have won four straight and eight of their last nine.
Josh Phegley belted his first career homer in his second major-league game for Chicago’s only run. White Sox starter John Danks (2-6) gave up three runs and five hits over seven innings to suffer the defeat.
Desmond Jennings led off the first with a double to center and scored on Zobrist’s one-out sacrifice fly to give the Rays a 1-0 lead. Danks allowed only one hit the next 3 2/3 innings before Yunel Escobar singled and later scored on a broken-bat base hit by Rodriguez to left in the fifth.
Price stranded five runners in the first four innings and pitched a 1-2-3 fifth before Phegley’s blast into the left-field seats with two outs in the sixth. Scott led off the seventh with a triple off the right-field wall and came home on Molina’s sacrifice fly to push the lead to 3-1.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Rays have gone eight games without committing an error. … Chicago 2B Gordon Beckham had two hits in four at-bats, improving to 11-for-22 over the last six contests. … Tampa Bay 1B James Loney went 0-for-3, ending a 16-game hitting streak.
Chi. White Sox | Tampa Bay | |
John Danks | Player | David Price |
Loss | W/L | Win |
7.0 | IP | 9.0 |
5 | Strikeouts | 5 |
5 | Hits | 8 |
3.86 | ERA | 1.00 |
Chi. White Sox | Tampa Bay | |
Gordon Beckham | Player | Luke Scott |
2 | Hits | 2 |
0 | RBI | 0 |
0 | HR | 0 |
2 | TB | 4 |
.500 | Avg | .667 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Chi. White Sox | 8 | 1 | 11 | .242 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tampa Bay | 5 | 0 | 8 | .192 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |