Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Brian Knight, 1B - Mike Winters, 2B - Mark Wegner, 3B - Mike Muchlinski
Attendance: 22227
White Sox 2, Rays 1: Adam Dunn hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the sixth, and Chris Sale racked up 15 strikeouts as Chicago held on in a meeting of AL contenders.
The White Sox have won six straight and nine of 10 to remain within a half-game of Cleveland atop the American League Central.
Sale (6-2) allowed one run on three hits over 7 1/3
innings to win his third straight start. He finished one shy of the
franchise record for strikeouts in a game set by Jack Harshman in 1954.
Addison Reed pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save.
Tampa Bay lost for just the second time in six games a day after pulling even with Baltimore atop the American League East.
Matt Moore (1-5) matched Sale for much of the day, racking up 10 strikeouts in seven innings while allowing two runs on four hits.GAME NOTEBOOK: Chicago's Paul Konerko went 1-for-4, extending his hitting streak to 14 games but dropping his major league-leading average to .395. … Moore has not won since May 1, going 0-4 in his past five starts. ... Tampa Bay will add veteran DH/OF Hideki Matsui to the roster Tuesday. Matsui batted .170 with four RBIs in 13 games at Triple-A Durham.
| Chi. White Sox | Tampa Bay | |
| Chris Sale | Player | Matt Moore |
| Win | W/L | Loss |
| 7.1 | IP | 7.0 |
| 15 | Strikeouts | 10 |
| 3 | Hits | 4 |
| 1.23 | ERA | 2.57 |
| Chi. White Sox | Tampa Bay | |
| Adam Dunn | Player | Ben Zobrist |
| 1 | Hits | 2 |
| 2 | RBI | 0 |
| 1 | HR | 0 |
| 4 | TB | 2 |
| .333 | Avg | .500 |
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| Chi. White Sox | 5 | 1 | 8 | .161 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tampa Bay | 3 | 0 | 3 | .100 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |