Peavy tries to win fourth straight start in finale versus Angels
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05/20/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - While the Chicago White Sox continue to be in a season- long funk, Jake Peavy appears as if he's put his early-year woes behind him.
The veteran pitcher will attempt to win a fourth consecutive start and help the White Sox salvage a split of a two-game series with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim tonight at U.S. Cellular Field.
Peavy endured a rough month of April in which the 2007 National League Cy Young Award honoree went 0-2 with an uncharacteristic 7.85 earned run average and allowed six runs or more in three of five starts. May has been a different story for the right-hander, though, as he's gone 3-0 with a 2.31 ERA in three outings and posted an excellent 22-to-2 ratio of strikeouts to walks.
The 28-year-old has also worked seven innings or more in each of those tests and finished two outs shy of a complete game in last Saturday's victory at Kansas City. Peavy gave up four runs on seven hits and struck out five before exiting.
He was even sharper in a 7-3 besting of Toronto at U.S. Cellular Field on May 8, limiting the Blue Jays to two runs on just three hits while fanning eight without a walk.
The two-time All-Star, who's spent most of his career pitching in the NL with San Diego, has only faced the Angels once previously. That came while with the Padres on June 17, 2006, with Peavy taking a tough loss despite permitting just three runs on four hits in an eight-inning stint.
Peavy will be trying to enable his team to avenge a 3-2 defeat to the Angels in Wednesday's opener. Torii Hunter put Anaheim in front with a two-run homer in the fourth inning, and starter Joe Saunders made the lead stand by twirling 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball as the Angels halted a two-game skid.
Saunders (3-5) yielded only one run and four hits in his second consecutive outstanding performance. The left-hander had fired a four-hit shutout to beat Oakland last Friday.
"He is pitching with confidence," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said of Saunders. "He's got a lot of life on his ball. He pitched a terrific game."
Brian Fuentes notched his fifth save of the season despite giving up a solo homer to Paul Konerko that brought Chicago within a run.
White Sox starter John Danks (3-3) pitched well in a losing cause, surrendering three runs -- two earned -- and striking out eight Angels in a 7 2/3-inning span.
"[Danks] made one mistake and it cost us the game," said catcher A.J. Pierzynski in reference to Hunter's homer. "We played hard, we battled. It just didn't work out."
The Angels turn to Ervin Santana, who'll be aiming for back-to-back wins for the first time this season, in hopes of gaining a sweep tonight. The hard- throwing righty halted a four-start winless skid with a solid six innings of work Saturday against Oakland, holding the Athletics to three runs -- two earned -- while striking out six batters in a 12-3 Angels verdict.
Santana had posted three no-decisions and a loss following his only other victory of 2010, a complete-game four-hitter in a 3-1 defeat of Toronto on April 18.
The 2008 AL All-Star is 2-1 in three lifetime starts at U.S. Cellular Field and owns a 3-2 mark with a 4.88 ERA over nine overall meetings (eight starts) with the White Sox.
The White Sox won five of nine meetings with the Angels in 2009 and took two of three games between the teams in Chicago from August 4-6.
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