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Paul Brandley breaks down the Baltimore Orioles' win over the Chicago White Sox Wednesday night. The Orioles completed their sweep of the White Sox behind a powerful offense, knocking three homers over the fence. Baltimore leads the league with 161 home runs on the season.TRANSCRIPT
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Orioles Sweep White Sox Behind Cruz HR
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Wednesday night the Baltimore Orioles finished off a clean sweep, beating the Chicago
White Sox 4-3.
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A lot of credit can be attributed to Nelson Cruz - the man who blasted his 33rd home run of
the season.
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Cruz, who matched his career high for homers, currently leads the league in that category.
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He is one homer ahead of Jose Abreu and Giancarlo Stanton.
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After the game, however, Cruz said that he could care less about the home run numbers - he's just
happy that the Orioles are cruising (pun intended).
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And it wasn't just Cruz that was on top of his game.
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The Orioles also got homers out of Adam Jones and Steve Pearce.
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To date, the Orioles have launched 161 baseballs over the outfield fence.
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But the Orioles also got some quality pitching from starter Wei-Yin Chen; he went 7 and 1/3
innings, allowing three runs on six hits.
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Zach Britton came in for the save, his 27th save of the season.
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Chen started off sloppy, allowing a two-run home run in the first inning to Avisail Garcia.
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He ran into trouble again in the 8th inning, allowing two singles - one to Alexei Ramirez
and one to Alejandro De Aza.
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That's when Darren O'Day entered the game and struck out Jose Abreu and Garcia to end
the inning.
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The White Sox have been slipping lately and are now nine games under .500.
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The Orioles also gave some updates on Manny Machado, saying that his sprained right ankle
has been recovering slowly.
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It has not responded favorably to treatments and exercises.
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As for the White Sox, outfielder Adam Eaton could be coming off the disabled list next week.
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He'll be starting his rehab assignment in AAA very soon.
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Eaton has been struggling to recover from a strained right oblique and can supply some offense
to a White Sox team that needs it desperately.
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The Orioles have the day off today before traveling to visit the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley
Field on Friday.
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Kevin Gausman will be matching up with Jake Arrieta.
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Arrieta has been having a good year, posting an ERA of 2.6 for the season.
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The White Sox also have the day off today before traveling to New
York to go up against the Yankees.
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John Danks will be facing off with Shane Greene.
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Danks has struggled since the start of July, posting a 6.2 ERA
over the last seven weeks.
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Good news for the White Sox, though: Carlos Rodon, the third overall pick in this year's draft,
could be making an appearance in the majors before the season
ends.