Dayan Viciedo News

Before Tuesday's game against the White Sox, the Twins had been limited to just three hits in three of their last four games and were averaging just 3.4 runs in June.

"He wasn't trying to walk the guy," Perkins said, pleading the case for Ramon Troncoso.

White Sox vs. Twins at Target Field, Minneapolis in the opener of a three-game series.

The Chicago White Sox will continue their 10-game road trip Tuesday with the first of three straight games against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.

For the first time in nearly five weeks, the White Sox return Tuesday night to American League Central play, where they thought their offensive struggles had been cured.

The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the White Sox and allowed them to avoid being swept in a four-game series for the first time since 2008.

During the Astros' season-high six-game winning streak from May 29 to June 3, first-year manager Bo Porter said winning was contagious for a young club most counted out before the season began.

The Chicago White Sox are continually morphing from a lowly underachieving team with a disastrously poor offense and a bloated payroll to a literal laughing stock, especially after dropping their fourth straight game, their third straight to the lowly Houston Astros .

Box W:D.Keuchel L:H.Santiago S:J.Veras HR: CWS- A.De Aza HOU- J.Castro Chicago WSox Top 1st - UMPIRES: Home,Jordan Baker; First, Dana DeMuth; Second, Paul Nauert; Third, Doug Eddings; - Alejandro De Aza struck out swinging.

Jason Castro homered for the second straight game and Matt Dominguez hit a three-run double to help the Houston Astros to their fourth straight win, 5-4, over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.

He stole second, which was good. Then he was picked off by Houston closer Jose Veras to end the game, which is very, very bad.

It's easy to classify Dayan Viciedo's offensive struggles, featured in a 4-for-46 slump prior to Tuesday's game against the Blue Jays, as the young hitter trying to pull the ball too much.

The White Sox did it all wrong. Everything. They lost 7-5 in 10 innings to the Blue Jays, because that's a typical consequence for errors like these.

White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said he doesn't know where the team's farm system ranks among the other organizations in the league, but he thinks it's serving its purpose just fine.

Mark Buehrle made his first visit to U.S. Cellular Field as a member of the other clubhouse on Monday, and so he received the customary video salute in the middle of the first inning: Hawk Harrelson sounded legitimately choked up, but otherwise, since Buehrle won't pitch for Toronto in this series, it minimized the weirdness.

Dayan Viciedo has redefined the term "streak hitter." In his last 12 games entering Monday, the White Sox left fielder has three hits in 42 at-bats.

Jun 9, 2013; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers hits a solo home run against the Oakland Athletics during the third inning at US Cellular Field.

Adam Wainwright picked up his joint MLB-leading ninth win as the St Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-2.

Adam Wainwright picked up his joint MLB-leading ninth win as the St Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-2.

The answer on Friday was supplied by Josh Donaldson, the team's most consistent hitter and another of those marvelous A's fairy tales.