CHICAGO (WBBM) - The White Sox will not go gently into the good night of the American League Playoffs.
Faced with a fourth straight elimination game at home against a fourth straight foe, they responded in the fourth inning of the fourth game of an eventual 5-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday night, edging the playoff difference to 2-1 Tampa. Game 5 is this afternoon at The Cell. Another win and it’s back to Tampa for the deciding game, Gavin Floyd for the Sox against Andrew Sonnanstine, with a scheduled 4 p.m. start.
WBBM's Eric Brown reports from the Cell.
DeWayne wise doubled down the left field line for two RBI in a three-run fourth. He also had scored the first run, in the third, on an RBI by A.J. Pierzynski. Ken Griffey, Jr., one of those Wise sent home, had two hits in his first two at-bats.
Griffey also made first on his third at-bat, via a walk in the sixth. That run scored when pinch-runner Brian Anderson came home on a two-out single by Juan Uribe.
Both starting pitchers lasted into the seventh, Matt Garza for Tampa and John Danks for Chicago. Danks had walked the leadoff man in the sixth and did so again the seventh. It cost him via a two-run, two-out homer to close the gap. The next hitter singled and he was through, pulled for Octavio Dotel after 105 pitches, 66 for strikes. Dotel closed the inning. Garza had 95 pitches, 58 for strikes when he was pulled. The Sox dod nothing against two releievers in the seventh and eighth.
Matt Thornton pitched a scoreless eighth for the Sox so it was up to Bobby Jenks in the ninth. He closed it out.
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