Saturday 16 July 2011

Dunn, Beckham help White Sox beat Tigers, 8-2

DETROIT — If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the American League Central.

Or something like that.

Not that the White Sox’ division is the hottest thing going. Their 8-2 victory against Justin Verlander
(12-5) and the Detroit Tigers kept them within five games of the first-place Cleveland Indians and moved them within four of the ­Tigers, who are considered the team to beat.(the help)

And the Sox are three games ­under .500.

But that losing-record stuff is in the Sox’ past, they’d like to believe, and what better way to prove it than by beating the AL’s best starting pitcher on the first day of a nine-game road swing through the Central after the All-Star break.

“I told them today in the meeting, ‘It’s all about you, it’s not about me,’ ’’
manager Ozzie Guillen said. “Don’t worry about rumors [or] anything. A lot of rumors out there.

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