Tampa Bay 3, Chi. White Sox 1
When: 1:40 PM ET, Sunday, July 7, 2013
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Scott Barry, 1B -
Mike DiMuro, 2B -
Ted Barrett, 3B -
Alfonso Marquez
Attendance:
16832
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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.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| 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 |
Hitting
| 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 Stats Summary
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