Chicago White Sox vs. Boston Red Sox

Reaching the eighth inning for the first time all year and just the second time in his career, Kelly limited the White Sox to two runs on five hits, and he was still throwing 97 miles per hour fastballs in the seventh. Abreu is 15-for-32 (.469 BA) with three homers and nine RBI during his current eight-game hitting streak vs. the Red Sox. Boston, which lost three of four to Chicago last month, finished 6-4 on its homestand after dropping the last two contests against AL Central-leading Kansas City over the weekend.

Boston and Chicago will play at 8:10pm on Tuesday night, with the Red Sox starting Wade Miley (10-9, 4.41 ERA) while the White Sox counter with Jose Quintana (7-10, 3.60 ERA). The Red Sox nearly turned a game-ending double play on Ramirez’ grounder to third, but pinch runner Gordon Beckham broke it up by forcing Holt to throw high to first after a hard slide.

The Red Sox made a significant change in their organization last week when owners John Henry and Tom Werner hired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations and gave him full autonomy of all baseball decisions, pending ownership’s approval.

“He’s a little swollen and we took it out of his hands”, interim Red Sox manager Torey Lovullo said…. Monday night represented a step in the right direction, particularly after the trials each endured earlier in the season. “I’m mixing pitches and locations, and that has definitely helped”. Castillo did most of the damage.

“I felt good. I thought I had good stuff today”. He was active on both sides of the operation, with the team’s general managers responsible for reporting to him on matters of player personnel, while he was also a crucial part of a business operation always looking to open up revenue streams.

2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on.

The White Sox offense, which wasn’t much better until it was too late, hurt itself again in the middle innings. Hanley Ramirez doubled to left center, Holt walked and Castillo connected on a 1-1 slider, driving it to deep right center for a two-run double and a 5-1 Boston lead.

After Abreu homered in the first, the Red Sox responded with a two-out rally.

Jose Abreu went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI on Sunday, and is now batting.

White Sox ninth. Machi pitching. White Sox starter Jeff Samardzija was able to retire David Ortiz and Travis Shaw via infield pop outs for the first two outs of the second, but got himself into trouble in a hurry.

Avisail Garcia overslides second base and is tagged out after his two-out single during the sixth inning Monday night.