Melky Cabrera hit a go-ahead two-run double
in the seventh inning as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago Solid White Sox
6-3 in the second of a three-game set on Saturday.
Jose Reyes finished with two hits, an RBI and a run scored and Jose Bautista,
Dioner Navarro and Nolan Reimold each drove in a run for the Blue Jays, who
snapped a four-game losing streak.
Mark Buehrle, who pitched for the White Sox for 12 seasons, returned to U.S.
Cellular Field for the first time since 2011. He allowed three runs on seven
hits with three strikeouts over 5 1/3 frames.
Brett Cecil (1-3) earned the win after recording two outs, striking out a
batter to close the sixth inning and start the seventh.
Avisail Garcia returned to the Chicago lineup for the first time since April 9
and supplied two hits, an RBI and a run scored for Chicago, which has dropped
two of its last three.
"It was a shot in the arm for us, adding another bat," said White Sox manager
Robin Ventura on Garcia. "He was just really excited. You could see it in the
way he was playing."
Matt Lindstrom (2-2) was tagged with the loss after giving up three runs in
the seventh. Starter John Danks was reached for three runs on seven hits and a
walk over in six innings.
Munenori Kawasaki greeted Lindstrom with a pinch-hit single to open the
seventh. Back-to-back doubles from Reyes and Cabrera gave the Blue Jays a 5-3
advantage and Bautista added another run with a grounder up the middle.
Aaron Sanchez induced an inning-ending double play to end the seventh and
pitched a scoreless eighth before Casey Janssen fired a 1-2-3 ninth for his
19th save of the season.
Edwin Encarnacion singled to lead off the second for Toronto and Danny
Valencia followed with a double to deep left. Navarro's sacrifice fly to
center plated Encarnacion and Reimold's base hit trickled into left for a 2-0
lead.
Toronto added to its lead in the fifth. Colby Rasmus doubled to right with one
out, moved to third on Steve Tolleson's fly out and scored on Reyes' base hit
up the middle.
In the sixth, Valencia and Reimold both singled around a Navarro walk to load
the bases with two outs, but Rasmus popped up to shallow center to leave them
stranded.
White Sox got on the board in the bottom half. Gordon Beckham and Jose
Abreu both singled before Garcia crushed a liner off the wall in right.
Reimold missed the catch at the wall and threw home, but Beckham slid under
Navarro's tag to make it 3-1 game.
Dustin McGowan replaced Buehrle, who left to a standing ovation from the White
Sox faithful. The runners each moved up a base on a wild pitch before Dayan
Viciedo's sac fly to deep center got Chicago within one. Paul Konerko stroked
an RBI ground ball to left, tying the game at 3-3.
Final game of the series is this afternoon with the Pre-Game Show at 12:35 on Newstalk 1060.
