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He'll try to become the first Red Sox left-handed starter in 40 seasons to open 7-0 - and help Boston win a sixth in a row - on Monday night against the host Chicago White Sox.

If not for his roots as a catcher, Angels reliever Robert Coello may have never discovered the forkball that is now his out pitch.

The Los Angeles Angels ended the White Sox 's four-game winning streak on Saturday afternoon with a 12-9 victory in an extremely ugly game that featured some words exchanged, two passed balls, 21 men left on base and a Terry Bevington-esque moment in bullpen management.

In his first two games rehabbing with Class AAA Charlotte, Gordon Beckham went 5-9 with three runs scored and two runs batted in at Buffalo.

Jason Vargas hurled seven scoreless innings to lead the LA Angels of Anaheim to a 6-2 win over the Chicago White Sox in the finale of a four-game set at Angels Stadium.

A soft-tossing lefty whose pitches seem to waft over the plate lazily from his three-quarters delivery, who boasts neither tricky stuff nor truly admirable control, whose success seems to be based on the pitcher's park surroundings he's kept himself in throughout his career.

It only took nine starts, but the Angels finally got passed the fact that Joe Blanton was starting, and pulled off a victory in a game that turned into a slug-fest. That still didn't stop Blanton from being terrible, though.

Since no one wants to acknowledge the fact that the captain of the Chicago White Sox is one of the worst players in all of baseball, I guess I will be the one who falls on that sword.

The Los Angeles Angels did three times better against Chris Sale than they did last Sunday at Chicago.

A Bronx native, Randy Ruiz was taken by the Mets in the 36th round of the draft out of high school, but instead chose to play baseball at Bellevue University, the previous year's winner of the NAIA World Series.

Jeff Keppinger walked with the bases loaded to drive in the go-ahead run - his first base on balls in 141 plate appearances this season - and the Chicago White Sox rallied with three runs in the eighth to beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 on Thursday night for their season-high third straight road win.

White Sox vs. Angels at Angel Stadium of Anaheim . Starters: Jose Quintana for the Sox, Jerome Williams for L.A. Sox Starting Lineup : De Aza, CF; Ramirez, SS; Rios, RF; Dunn, 1B; Konerko, DH; Gillaspie, 3B; Viciedo, LF; Keppinger, 2B; Flowers, C. Dayan Viciedo, who homered and drove in a pair of runs in yesterday's 9-4 win over the Twins, is ... (more)

The Chicago White Sox may be pulling up the rear in the AL Central, but they're by no means out of the race, currently sitting only five games back of the division-leading Detroit Tigers .

Even with the Blackhawks expected long run toward Lord Stanley, there will be more conversational room on the Score's air.

Last in the American League in hitting and scoring, the Chicago White Sox started to find some offence this week in Minnesota.

The Chicago White Sox have stumbled out of the gate to a 16-21 record. While that is certainly not insurmountable, they are currently in last place in their division and is the only team under .500. Each team in the AL Central, aside from possibly the Minnesota Twins , appears to be head and shoulders better than the White Sox this year.

May 15, 2013; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Chicago White Sox outfielder Dayan Viciedo is congratulated by catcher Hector Gimenez after hitting a home run during the fourth inning against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.

White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers was convinced he tagged out Justin Morneau not once, but twice, in the fifth inning of Chicago's 4-2 win over Minnesota on Tuesday.

Coming into this season, there were plenty of doubts expressed about the White Sox offense.

We have reached the one-quarter mark on the 2013 MLB season, and it has been a season largely dominated by starting pitching to this point.