Twins Rough Up Chris Sale In 12-2 Victory
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Brian Dozier had a homer and four RBIs and the Minnesota Twins roughed up Chicago ace Chris Sale in a 12-2 victory over the White Sox on Thursday night.
Trevor May (2-1) gave up two runs on 10 hits and struck out four in 5 2-3 innings and the Twins knocked Sale out of the game with a seven-run third inning. Joe Mauer added three hits and two RBIs for Minnesota (10-12).
Sale (2-1) gave up a career-high nine runs -- eight earned -- on nine hits with four strikeouts and two walks in just three innings. Melky Cabrera had two hits and an RBI for the White Sox, who were coming off an unsettling three days in Baltimore that saw two games postponed and one played in an empty stadium because of rioting in the city.
The White Sox (8-11) looked to be in sort of a fog all over the diamond on Thursday night after the bizarre stay in Baltimore.
They made two errors in the first three innings while the Twins dinked and dunked their way through Sale's offerings. Kurt Suzuki, Shane Robinson and Eduardo Escobar had bloop hits for RBIs to put the Twins in front and Dozier struck the big blow with a three-run blast deep into the left field seats to give them a 9-2 lead.
Sale had never given up nine runs in a game. He allowed eight twice in 2013, with his worst start going 4 1-3 innings of a loss to Cleveland on April 13 of that year.
Coming off of a start in which he was knocked out early when a ball off the bat of Seattle's Kyle Seager struck him on the right elbow, May welcomed the cushion. He showed no hesitation or ill effects from the scary incident, allowing two runs on some soft-hit singles up the middle in the third inning.
He also got some nice help from his defense when Robinson, playing center field, threw out Alexei Ramirez at home plate in the first inning.
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