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The Boston Red Sox (66-49) face the Chicago White Sox (63-50) in what will be an important opening game of the series for both teams. The Red Sox are current AL Wild Card holders, and the White Sox are a half game up on the Minnesota Twins in the AL Central.

Consider these criteria when determining a pick between the Red Sox and the White Sox:

- Jon Lester (10-3, 3.14) will start for Boston

- Mark Buehrle (8-10, 4.07) will start for Chicago

- Boston has won seven straight games against Chicago, most recently a 4 game sweep last August

- Chicago has won 25 of its last 32 home games

- Buehrle struggles against the Red Sox, going 0-4 with a 7.18 ERA in his last five starts

- Boston has won 5 of its last 6 games

- Boston is 26-33 on the road

- Chicago is 37-17 at home, 4th best in the league

- Boston is 6-4 in its last 10

- Chicago is 4-6 in its last 10

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It took someone who wasn’t even expecting to play to finally end the extra innings game between the Chicago White Sox (62-49) and the Detroit Tigers (55-57). The game lasted 4 hours and 58 minutes, but Chicago’s Nick Swisher hit a three run homer in the bottom of the 14th to give the White Sox the 10-8 win. The game went into extra innings at 6-6, and neither team scored until the 14th inning. In the top of the inning, Detroit’s Placido Polanco hit his second homer of the game, which brought in 2 runs to make it 8-6 in the Tigers favor heading into the bottom of the inning. Chicago’s Orlando Cabrera scored after an error, to make the score 8-7. With two outs and a 2-1 count, Swisher stepped to the plate and hit his three run bomb to right-center field. The win gave Chicago a one game lead on Minnesota, who lost to Seattle, in the AL Central. Adam Russell was given the win, his fourth of the season. Joel Zumaya was given the loss.

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The Detroit Tigers (52-50) are currently 6.5 games back of the Chicago White Sox (58-43) in the AL Central standings. It very easily could have been 5.5 games back as they blew their lead going into the top of the ninth to lose 6-5 Friday. It was the second straight comeback win for Chicago, and their 16th in their last 24 games. The go ahead HR was hit by All-star roster snubbed Jermaine Dye who had this to say about the game, “A big game for them getting back into the race and we stole one.” With two outs in the top of the ninth and one man on base, Dye stepped to the plate against Tigers closer Todd Jones. After a quick 2-0 count, Dye hit the next pitch over the fence to give Chicago the lead, and they never looked back. D.J. Carrasco was given the win for pitching the eight, and Bobby Jenks was given the save. Todd Jones was tacked with the loss.

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The Chicago White Sox (57-43) beat the Texas Rangers (52-50) by a score of 10-8 in an afternoon showdown at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago today.  The White Sox win was a come from behind victory; they scored 5 runs in the bottom of the eighth and closer Bobby Jenks closed it out for the save.  Carlos Quentin turned out to be the star of the game, as he hit two home runs, for a total of 26 on the season.  His eighth inning, three run bomb off of Rangers closer C.J. Wilson drove in three runs to give the Sox the lead heading into the top of the ninth.  The HR came with two outs, and with Wilson just coming in to replace reliever Eddie Guardado, who was eventually charged with the loss.

Quentin had this to say about the homerun: “I was looking fastball and was going to adjust to anything he threw up there.  I was just looking to get a hit and tie the game. Sometimes in those situation when you’re not looking to do too much, good things happen.”  The win came without eccentric White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen on the bench.  He was tossed in the seventh, when his team was down 8-4, after arguing a called third strike with home plate umpire Rob Drake.  Octavio Dotel (4-4) was given the win after pitching a perfect inning in the top of the eighth.

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