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- Updated: September 17, 2016
KANSAS CITY — Kauffman Stadium is the home of the defending World Series champion Royals.
For the visiting White Sox, it’s also referred to as the venue of the gut-punch loss. See a three-game sweep here on May 27-29 as an example.
But on Friday night, in the opener of a four-game set, it was the White Sox who had the good late fortune in an exciting 7-4 victory. The White Sox, now 5-11 vs. the Royals in the season series and 2-5 on the road, scored four runs in the eighth off Kelvin Herrera, punctuated by Carlos Sanchez’s three-run homer to right. It was the second baseman’s first home run of the season.
That rally made a winner of Chris Sale, whose sixth complete game of the season marked the sixth straight outing in which he has worked at least eight innings. That streak stands as the White Sox longest since Jack McDowell worked that deep in seven straight from July 10-Aug. 8, 1994.
Sale’s six complete games are the most by a White Sox pitcher since Bartolo Colon threw nine in 2003. All of these numbers further the American League Cy …
