TORONTO , CHI WHITE SOX By Chris Melnyczenko PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer CHICAGO (Ticker) -- The Chicago White Sox continue to show signs oflife. Juan Uribe drove in the go-ahead run and Jermaine Dye homered asthe White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays at U.S. CellularField, 4-3, on Friday. The White Sox have won four of their last five games, aftertaking three out of five from the American CentralDivision-leading Detroit Tigers. Dye his hitting .317 (19-for-60) with six doubles, six home runsand 11 RBI since the All-Star break. Prior to that, Dye hadgone .040 (1-for-25) in his final seven games of the first half.He hit his 18th home run of the year in the second inning toput Chicago on the board first. White Sox righthander Jon Garland pitched 7 1/3 effectiveinnings to end Toronto's season-high five-game winning streak.The Blue Jays are now 20-31 on the road, having lost seven oftheir last 11 contests away from Rogers Centre. Garland (8-7) gave up three runs on 10 hits in his 22nd start ofthe season. Rookie Ehren Wasserman finished the eighth andBobby Jenks logged the ninth for his 29th save. A.J. Pierzynski was hit by a pitch before Josh Fields singled,ending the night in the sixth inning for Blue Jays starter JoshTowers (5-7). Two batters later, Uribe doubled against BrianTallet to score Pierzynski and Fields to put the Sox up 4-3. In the fourth inning, Toronto's Frank Thomas hit a routine flyball to left field that was misjudged by Podsednik. The balldropped for an RBI double to tie the score at 1-1. Aaron Hillcontinued the fourth by hitting a single to score Thomas, beforeMatt Stairs' RBI single capped off the three-run frame. Thomas, who played for Chicago from 1990-2005 and holdsfranchise records in most offensive categories, finished thenight with a double and a run scored. Reed Johnson went 4-for-4 for Toronto, matching a career high.
Uribe delivers to keep White Sox rolling <h3>CHI WHITE SOX 4, TORONTO 3</h3>By Chris Melnyczenko PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer CHICAGO (Ticker) -- The Chicago White Sox continue to show signs oflife. Juan Uribe drove in the go-ahead run and Jermaine Dye homered asthe White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays at U.S. CellularField, 4-3, on Friday. The White Sox have won four of their last five games, aftertaking three out of five from the American CentralDivision-leading Detroit Tigers. Dye his hitting .317 (19-for-60) with six doubles, six home runsand 11 RBI since the All-Star break. Prior to that, Dye hadgone .040 (1-for-25) in his final seven games of the first half.He hit his 18th home run of the year in the second inning toput Chicago on the board first. White Sox righthander Jon Garland pitched 7 1/3 effectiveinnings to end Toronto's season-high five-game winning streak.The Blue Jays are now 20-31 on the road, having lost seven oftheir last 11 contests away from Rogers Centre. Garland (8-7) gave up three runs on 10 hits in his 22nd start ofthe season. Rookie Ehren Wasserman finished the eighth andBobby Jenks logged the ninth for his 29th save. A.J. Pierzynski was hit by a pitch before Josh Fields singled,ending the night in the sixth inning for Blue Jays starter JoshTowers (5-7). Two batters later, Uribe doubled against BrianTallet to score Pierzynski and Fields to put the Sox up 4-3. In the fourth inning, Toronto's Frank Thomas hit a routine flyball to left field that was misjudged by Podsednik. The balldropped for an RBI double to tie the score at 1-1. Aaron Hillcontinued the fourth by hitting a single to score Thomas, beforeMatt Stairs' RBI single capped off the three-run frame. Thomas, who played for Chicago from 1990-2005 and holdsfranchise records in most offensive categories, finished thenight with a double and a run scored. Reed Johnson went 4-for-4 for Toronto, matching a career high.
Uribe delivers to keep White Sox rolling <h3>CHI WHITE SOX 4, TORONTO 3</h3>By Chris Melnyczenko PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer CHICAGO (Ticker) - The Chicago White Sox continue to show signsof life. Juan Uribe drove in the go-ahead run and Jermaine Dye homered asthe White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays at U.S. CellularField, 4-3, on Friday. The White Sox have won four of their last five games, aftertaking three out of five from the American CentralDivision-leading Detroit Tigers. "Hopefully, this is the beginning of a better summer for us,"White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Hopefully, (Dye) willcontinue to swing the bat well for us." In the decisive sixth, A.J. Pierzynski was hit by a pitch beforerookie Josh Fields singled with one out, ending the night forBlue Jays starter Josh Towers (5-7). Two batters later, Uribedoubled against Brian Tallet to score Pierzynski and Fields toput the Sox up 4-3. "Uribe's an aggressive hitter," Blue Jays manager John Gibbonssaid. "(Towers) threw it right down broadway (to Uribe in thesixth inning). It was a game we should've won." "I felt like I was in control and pitching well," Towers said."(But) I don't think we showed up today. We just gave the gameaway. I don't think there were heads up, and I don't think weconsistently show up as a coaching staff and a team everyday." Towers yielded four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Dye is hitting .317 (19-for-60) with six doubles, six home runsand 11 RBI since the All-Star break. Prior to that, Dye hadgone .040 (1-for-25) in his final seven games of the first half.He hit his 18th home run of the year in the second inning toput Chicago on the board first. "I'm just going out, having fun, and playing the game," Dyesaid. "I had a tough first half. In the second half, I justwanted to go out there and clear everything out of my mind andfocus." White Sox righthander Jon Garland pitched 7 1/3 effectiveinnings to end Toronto 's season-high five-game winning streak.The Blue Jays are now 20-31 on the road, having lost seven oftheir last 11 contests away from Rogers Centre. Garland (8-7) gave up three runs on 10 hits in his 22nd start ofthe season. Rookie Ehren Wasserman finished the eighth andBobby Jenks logged the ninth for his 29th save. "I got lucky tonight," Garland said. "I missed way too manypitches. (But) I was attacking the zone a lot better than Ihave in the past." In the fourth inning, Toronto's Frank Thomas hit a routine flyball to left field that was misjudged by Podsednik. The balldropped for an RBI double to tie the score at 1-1. Aaron Hillcontinued the fourth by hitting a single to score Thomas, beforeMatt Stairs' RBI single capped off the three-run frame. Thomas, who played for Chicago from 1990-2005 and holdsfranchise records in most offensive categories, finished thenight with a double and a run scored. "(Thomas) is a class act," Guillen said. "He was one of thebest players to wear a Sox uniform." Reed Johnson went 4-for-4 for Toronto, matching a career high.
