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- Updated: August 7, 2016
CHICAGO — The White Sox used a pair of homers, a big overturned call and a solid start from Carlos Rodon to hang on for a 4-2 series-evening win over the Orioles on Saturday night.
Chicago has now won five of its last six home games, handing Baltimore a loss that keeps the club tied with Toronto — which lost to Kansas City — for first place in the American League East.
The White Sox took an early lead, scoring a run in the first and adding Tyler Saladino’s solo blast off Orioles starter Chris Tillman in the third. Tillman, trying for his 15th win, surrendered three runs on seven hits and two walks and exited after putting a pair of runners on in the seventh.
That’s when Chicago pulled away for good, with Omar Narvaez’s pop single — ruled fair after the initial call of foul was overturned on a challenge — scored J.B. Shuck. Adam Eaton homered on the first pitch he saw from reliever Vance Worley in the eighth.
Rodon went six innings and allowed two runs (one earned) — both driven in by Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy — on five hits and two walks.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDCatching on quickly: Rookie catcher Narvaez delivered a go-ahead single in the seventh as the culmination of a nine-pitch at-bat against Mychal Givens. The bloop …
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