- Munetaka Murakami hit his 14th homer and Miguel Vargas also went deep as the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-0 Monday night.
for the major league lead in home runs. Murakami also hit his first double of the season in the sixth, singled and scored in the eighth, finishing 3 for 4 with two RBI and three runs scored.allowed five hits in seven shutout innings, with 10 strikeouts and no walks.
He improved to 5-1 and lowered his ERA to 1.64. The right-hander escaped his only jam in the seventh, gettingadded four hits - all singles - and an RBI for the White Sox, who have won six of their last seven games.
looked nothing like the ace who went 5-1 with an 0.84 ERA in his first seven starts and became the first Angel to win AL pitcher-of-the-month honors since Soriano, slowed by neck stiffness in his previous start, gave up a season-high five runs and eight hits in four innings, striking out five, walking three and needing 88 pitches to record 12 outs. The right-hander looked out of whack mechanically in the first, throwing nine of his first 11 pitches for balls and walking two.
RBI singles bySoriano escaped two-on, two-out jams in the second and third innings before being tagged for three runs in the fourth. Murakami followed Sam Antonacci's single by clubbing an up-and-away 98 mph fastball an estimated 429 feet to center for a two-run homer. Vargas followed with a solo shot to right-center to make it 5-0. Driver takes off after hit-and-run crash kills man and baby in Playa del Rey, LAPD says
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