Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 5, Chi. White Sox 0
When: 6:40 PM ET, Monday, April 18, 2011
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Hunter Wendelstedt, 1B - Victor Carapazza, 2B - Brian Knight, 3B - Jerry Meals
Attendance: 12016
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Hunter Wendelstedt, 1B - Victor Carapazza, 2B - Brian Knight, 3B - Jerry Meals
Attendance: 12016
David Price pitched eight shutout innings and Felipe Lopez drove in three runs as the host Tampa Bay Rays blanked the reeling Chicago White Sox 5-0 on Monday evening.
The Rays (7-9) jumped on top with three runs in the first against Edwin Jackson (2-1). Lopez delivered a two-out RBI single, and scored on Ben Zobrist's two-run homer.
Price (2-2) wouldn't need any more support. He struck out nine, and allowed four hits and two walks on 114 pitches.
Lopez picked up another two-out RBI in the fifth when he doubled in Matt Joyce and added a solo homer against Matt Thornton in the eighth to finish 3-for-4. Sam Fuld added four hits for Tampa Bay.
Jackson scattered 11 hits over seven innings and struck out three for Chicago (7-9), which has lost five consecutive games.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Chi. White Sox | Tampa Bay | |
| Edwin Jackson | Player | David Price |
| Loss | W/L | Win |
| 7.0 | IP | 8.0 |
| 3 | Strikeouts | 9 |
| 11 | Hits | 4 |
| 5.14 | ERA | 0.00 |
Hitting
| Chi. White Sox | Tampa Bay | |
| Ramon Castro | Player | Sam Fuld |
| 1 | Hits | 4 |
| 0 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 2 | TB | 5 |
| .333 | Avg | 1.000 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| Chi. White Sox | 4 | 0 | 5 | .129 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Tampa Bay | 12 | 2 | 20 | .387 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |