Angels Rough Up Carlos Rodon In 7-0 Win Over White Sox
CHICAGO (AP) -- Hector Santiago matched a career high with 10 strikeouts over seven crisp innings, and the Los Angeles Angels roughed up Carlos Rodon on their way to a 7-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.
Kole Calhoun, Andrelton Simmons and Geovany Soto hit consecutive RBI singles during a five-run first, matching the Angels' season high for runs in an entire game. Mike Trout scored on a throwing error by first baseman Jose Abreu, and Johnny Giavotella capped the opening outburst with another RBI single.
Rodon (1-2) got only one out before he was replaced by Jake Petricka. The No. 3 pick in the 2014 amateur draft allowed six hits and walked two in the shortest of his 29 major league appearances.
Simmons and C.J. Cron each had three hits as the Angels rebounded from a weekend sweep by the Twins. Simmons extended his hitting streak to 11 games, equaling a career high, and Cron busted out of a 4-for-40 start to the season after he was pushed down to eighth in the lineup.
Los Angeles also improved to 4-3 on a 10-game trip to Oakland, Minnesota and Chicago.
The White Sox opened a seven-game homestand with their third consecutive loss after an 8-2 start to the season. Jimmy Rollins doubled and walked twice, but Jose Abreu and Adam Eaton had the only other hits for slumping Chicago.
Santiago (1-0), traded from the White Sox to the Angels in a three-team deal in 2013 that sent Eaton to Chicago, yielded two hits and walked three. Greg Mahle worked the eighth and Mike Morin finished the three-hitter for Los Angeles' first shutout of the season.
The White Sox have scored 11 runs in their last six games.
Cron singled home Calhoun in the third and drove in Simmons with a base hit in the eighth. Cron entered with two RBIs on the year.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Angels: LHP Tyler Skaggs, coming back from Tommy John surgery, is scheduled to throw four innings for Triple-A Salt Lake on Wednesday. He had been limited to three innings in each of his first two outings with the Bees.
UP NEXT
White Sox RHP Mat Latos (2-0, 0.75 ERA) and Angels RHP Matt Shoemaker (1-1, 6.00) take the mound for the second game of the series. Latos has allowed one run in 12 innings this season, and Shoemaker pitched six scoreless innings in his previous start at Oakland on Wednesday.
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