Royals 2 - 9 White Sox
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White Sox go for sweep of lowly Royals

Aug 14, 2008 - 10:04 AM Kansas City (54-66) at Chi White Sox (67-52) 2:05 p.m. EDT

CHICAGO (Ticker) -- The Chicago White Sox will continue their fight for American League Central supremacy when they host the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.

The White Sox maintained their one-half game advantage over the Minnesota Twins (67-53) with a 4-0 win over the Royals on Wednesday. With the Twins idle on Thursday, Chicago has a chance to push the advantage to a full game by completing a sweep of Kansas City.

The White Sox have dominated the first two games of the series with pitching, shutting out the Royals in the first two games by a combined 13-0. Javier Vazquez turned in eight strong innings on Tuesday and Mark Buehrle followed it up with seven solid frames on Wednesday.

With Jose Contreras out for the season after rupturing his left Achilles tendon on Saturday, rookie Lance Broadway (0-0, 0.00) will get a chance to start for the White Sox. The righthander, who turns 25 next week, has made one appearance out of the bullpen for Chicago, tossing one-third of an inning.

Broadway, who made four appearances - one start - in the majors last season, went 10-7 with a 4.68 ERA in 23 games - 22 starts at Class AAA Charlotte.

Kansas City will counter with righthander Kyle Davies (5-3, 4.66). The 24-year-old is coming off a terrible outing against Minnesota last Friday in which he allowed three runs and walked five batters in 2 1/3 innings to suffer a loss.

Davies has started against Chicago twice this season, going 1-0 while allowing six runs in 11 combined frames.








  • AL
    FINAL
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
    - - - - - - - - - - - -
    KANSAS CITY 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 0
    CHI WHITE SOX 0 3 0 0 0 6 0 0 x 9 13 2 (FINAL)

    BATTERIES: KAN - KYLE DAVIES, JOEL PERALTA (6TH), ROBINSON TEJEDA (6TH), JOSH
    NEWMAN (8TH) AND JOHN BUCK
    CHA - LANCE BROADWAY, HORACIO RAMIREZ (6TH), D.J.
    CARRASCO (6TH), ADA

    Aug 14 5:06 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY JUAN URIBE (4) TO LEFT WITH 2 OUT IN THE
    6TH OFF ROBINSON TEJEDA.
    CURRENT SCORE: KANSAS CITY 2, CHI WHITE SOX 9
    DUE UP FOR CHI WHITE SOX: T HALL (.280, 1-FOR-3)

    Royals 2, White Sox 9  Bot 6, 0 OutsAug 14 4:30 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY ALEXEI RAMIREZ (11) TO LEFT WITH 2 OUT IN
    THE 6TH OFF JOEL PERALTA.
    CURRENT SCORE: KANSAS CITY 2, CHI WHITE SOX 8
    DUE UP FOR CHI WHITE SOX: J URIBE (.235, 1-FOR-3)

    Royals 2, White Sox 8  Bot 6, 0 OutsAug 14 4:26 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY PAUL KONERKO (12) TO LEFT WITH 2 OUT IN
    THE 6TH OFF JOEL PERALTA.
    CURRENT SCORE: KANSAS CITY 2, CHI WHITE SOX 7
    DUE UP FOR CHI WHITE SOX: A RAMIREZ (.303, 0-FOR-3)

    Royals 2, White Sox 7  Bot 6, 0 OutsAug 14 4:23 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    THREE-RUN HOME RUN BY JIM THOME (25) TO RIGHT WITH 2 OUT IN
    THE 6TH OFF JOEL PERALTA SCORED KEN GRIFFEY JR AND CARLOS QUENTIN.
    CURRENT SCORE: KANSAS CITY 2, CHI WHITE SOX 6
    DUE UP FOR CHI WHITE SOX: P KONERKO (.224, 2-FOR-3)

    Royals 2, White Sox 6  Bot 6, 0 OutsAug 14 4:22 PM


  • AL
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
    - - - - - - - - - - - -
    KANSAS CITY 2 2 3 0
    CHI WHITE SOX 0 0 0 (BOT 1)

    CURRENT PITCHERS: KAN - KYLE DAVIES
    CHA - LANCE BROADWAY

    DUE UP FOR CHI WHITE SOX: O CABRERA (.269, 6 HR, 47 RBI)
    K GRIFFEY JR (.200, 0 HR, 3 RBI)
    C QUENTIN (.284, 32

    Royals 2, White Sox 0  Bot 1, 0 OutsAug 14 2:19 PM

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