Peavy leads White Sox past Cubs
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Jake Peavy tossed 6 1/3 shutout innings while Gordon Beckham, Adam Dunn and Tyler Flowers all smacked solo home runs as the Chicago White Sox blanked the Chicago Cubs, 6-0, in the finale of a three-game interleague set.
Peavy (5-1) fanned seven and surrendered three hits and two walks for the White Sox, who have won four in a row. Peavy threw 70 of his 100 pitches for strikes.
It's the first series win for the White Sox in their last nine. Chicago had not taken a set since it swept the Mariners on April 20-22 at Seattle.
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"Everybody's doing their part, starting pitching, the relievers, hitters getting timely hits and playing defense. You put those together you're going to have a good chance," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said of his team's recent success.
Paul Maholm (4-3) was charged with five runs on nine hits for the Cubs, who have dropped six straight.
"After going through a pretty good two-week stretch, now we're at a week stretch of no wins and getting swept by the White Sox at home is about as low as you're going to get," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said.
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The Cubs were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base.
The White Sox pushed across a pair of runs in the fourth inning, one in the fifth, two in the seventh and one more in the ninth.
Back-to-back homers from Beckham and Dunn gave the White Sox a 2-0 advantage in the fourth. Beckham drilled a hanging changeup that hooked just inside the left-field foul pole while Dunn launched a towering opposite-field shot that sailed into the final row of the seats in left-center.
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Flowers, who had two hits and scored twice, belted a solo blast that cleared the left-field bleachers as Chicago took a 3-0 lead in the fifth.
He led off the seventh with a double and moved to third on Brent Lillibridge's single. Peavy grounded into a fielder's choice, which scored Flowers, then scampered to third on Alejandro De Aza's single. He crossed the plate on Beckham's sacrifice fly to right, which made it 5-0.
Alex Rios laced an RBI double to left in the ninth, which accounted for the final margin.
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Game Notes
Dunn's homer was his 14th of the year...The White Sox were 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position...Peavy induced seven groundouts and just one fly out.