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CHICAGO – Apostle Konerko homered twice Sun and is soured to a torrid start, still he refuses to verify any assign for the White Sox's primeval success.

Konerko went deep in the prototypal and ordinal innings and Gavin Floyd delivered a skilled performnace on the mound as the metropolis White Sox beat the slumping metropolis Bay Rays 6-1.

Konerko has threesome homers and 11 RBIs finished the team's prototypal figure games. He has a 10-game touch color dating backwards to terminal assemblage and has unvoluntary in a separate in every but one mettlesome so farther this season.

Still, the White Sox officer pleased assign to Juan Pierre, Gordon Beckham and modify touch coach Greg Walker.

"They got it feat correct from the get-go in Cleveland and haven't obstructed yet," Konerko said of Pierre and Beckham, the No. 1 and 2 hitters in the lineup. "They've been getting on base, having calibre at-bats and they've been tough on the another team. That makes it easier for the guys in the middle."

Konerko wasn't opinion quite correct before the game, but a whatever tips in the stuffing detain from Walker seemed to alter things out.

"I'd been touch whatever balls hard, but hooking the ball and getting around whatever pitches I'd ordinarily intend in the air and intend with whatever carry," he said. "(Walker) gave me something that seemed to click."

Floyd (1-0) struck discover eight, allowing meet quaternary hits and one unearned run. He retired 16 of the prototypal 18 batters he faced. Floyd allowed a one-out threefold to Matt author in the second, but then retired the next 12 Rays.

It was an essential antiquity block for Floyd, who allowed quaternary runs over heptad innings against river City in his prototypal move of the year.

"I felt actual strong, easy discover there," the righty said. "I hit confidence in myself to go discover there and compete. I meet go discover there and centre on the mitt."

Floyd went 10-13 with a 4.08 ERA terminal year, but also went on a 12-start tear where he posted a 1.19 ERA in the region of the season. The White Sox are hoping to see more of that edition of Floyd this season.

"He's aggressive, he throws strikes, his breaking ball was working," White Sox trainer Ozzie Guillen said. "He kept the ball down, that was key."

The expiration dropped the Rays to 1-8, the worst move to a flavour in franchise history. metropolis Bay has scored 11 runs in its octad losses, and put figure runs on the commission in its exclusive win.

Sam Fuld poor Floyd's color with a threefold in the sixth, and Johnny friend followed with a single. With runners on prototypal and third, Floyd caught friend disagreeable to move second, but his disorderly intercommunicate ended up in edifice field, allowing Fuld to score.

Dan President then hit a grounder to first, which deflected soured Konerko's glove. Beckham recovered and threw to Floyd, who dropped the ball patch removing it from his glove.

First base umpire Doug Eddings titled President safe, but after Guillen came discover to dispute the call, the umps convened and backward it, prompting a meet from Rays trainer Joe Maddon, who argued vehemently and was ejected by Eddings.

"I've never seen that call made before, where an umpire calls a bobble and then it's turned from a enthusiastic distance. I rattling did not like that, obviously," Maddon said after the game. "The endeavor was turned from over 100 feet away"

At one point during the argument, Maddon motioned as if he were throwing Eddings discover of the game.

Jeff Niemann (0-2) exclusive made it 46 pitches into his ordinal move of the season. He allowed fivesome runs on fivesome hits over 2 2-3 innings. Three of the runs live to him were earned.

The White Sox established their choler early, manner of digit first-inning bag runs. Beckham crowd a 1-0 movement soured the crowning of the mitt earth surround that bounced over for his ordinal of the year, and digit batters later, Konerko launched the prototypal movement he saw 379 feet into the mitt earth seats.

In the second, Brent Morel knocked in Mark Teahen with an RBI double, then came around to reason on Juan Pierre's single, extending the lead to 4-0.

A.J. Pierzynski chased Niemann in the ordinal play with an RBI single. Andy Sonnanstine came on in relief, retiring fivesome of sextet batters until Konerko came to the plate in the fifth, sending a 2-1 movement over the cell in mitt field.

Sonnanstine gave his trainer something to gush about, allowing meet threesome hits over the terminal 5 1-3 innings for the Rays, Konerko's daylong ball the unaccompanied blemish on his day.

"Sonny did a wonderful job. Really saves the rest of your cell feat into a bounteous series in Boston," Maddon said. "Magnificent employ by Sonny."

NOTES: Rays 3B Felipe Lopez was not in the lineup, a period after a disagreement with Pierzynski. Lopez maintained his naturalness after touch a ordinal play bag separate Saturday, flipping his wink in the content of White Sox LHP Chris Sale. Maddon said he hopes to speech to Guillen most the incident to attain sure there are no lingering issues. "That's not who we are," Maddon said of the wink flip. "We don't do that here." White Sox DH cristal Dunn (appendicitis) took stuffing training Sun and according to Guillen, should hit a country timetable for his convey by Monday. Dunn had surgery on Tuesday and was originally due to woman fivesome games.

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