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Carlos Rodon hopes to wrap up his second big league season no worse than his first as the Chicago White Sox open a season-ending series with the Minnesota Twins on Friday. If the 23-year-old left-hander earns his ninth victory in his 28th and final start of 2016, it would match the win total from his rookie season. It would also complete a successful late-summer rebound from the 2-8 record he owned on July 31 after giving up five runs on eight hits in a 6 1/3-inning outing during Chicago's 6-4 loss to the Twins. Continue to Article

September 30, 2016 4:21:am EST

Carlos Rodon hopes to wrap up his second big league season no worse than his first as the Chicago White Sox open a season-ending series with the Minnesota Twins on Friday. If the 23-year-old left-hander earns his ninth victory in his 28th and final start of 2016, it would match the win total from his rookie season. It would also complete a successful late-summer rebound from the 2-8 record he owned on July 31 after giving up five runs on eight hits in a 6 1/3-inning outing during Chicago's 6-4 loss to the Twins. Continue to Article

September 30, 2016 4:21:am EST

Sept 30 (Gracenote) - Results from the MLB games on Thursday (home team in CAPS) WASHINGTON 5 Arizona 3 NY YANKEES 5 Boston 1 PITTSBURGH 1 Chicago Cubs 1 (6 innings) Baltimore 4 TORONTO 0 ATLANTA 5 Philadelphia 2 ST. LOUIS 4 Cincinnati 3 Minnesota 7 KANSAS CITY 6 Tampa Bay 5 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3 LA Dodgers 9 SAN DIEGO 4 SEATTLE 3 Oakland 2 SAN FRANCISCO 7 Colorado 2 Continue to Article

September 30, 2016 1:37:am EST

Chris Archer overcame a shaky seventh inning to avoid becoming the majors' first 20-game loser since 2003 and lead the Tampa Bay Rays past the Chicago White Sox, 5-3 on Thursday night. Archer (9-19) allowed three runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings to help the Rays snap a six-game skid and leave Detroit's Mike Maroth as the only pitcher to lose 20 games this century. Mikie Mahtook hit a solo homer in the fourth off Jose Quintana (13-12) and doubled and scored in a three-run seventh off Chicago's shaky bullpen. Continue to Article

September 30, 2016 12:13:am EST

(Reuters) - Lawyers for Pete Rose have sent a letter to the Baseball Hall of Fame seeking a rule amendment that would clear the way for Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader to be considered for induction into the shrine. Jon Shestakofsky, spokesman for the National Baseball Hall of Fame located in Cooperstown, New York confirmed to Reuters that Hall president Jeff Idelson had received a letter from Rose's attorneys on Thursday but was out of the office and has not yet seen it. Rose has been ineligible for Hall of Fame consideration since being banned in 1989 for allegedly gambling on games while playing for and managing the Cincinnati Reds. Continue to Article

September 29, 2016 3:51:pm EST