Esmerling Vazquez

The White Sox beat the Twins 6-0 Friday night behind the pitching of Chris Sale. Sale threw 6 shutout innings to get the win. Alex Rios went 2-3 with a run scored and 1 RBI and Kevin Youkilis hit a solo homerun for the White Sox. The Twins managed just 4 hits with Justin Morneau getting 2 of them. Esmerling Vazquez threw 5 2/3 innings with earned runs allowed to take the loss.

Kansas City beat the Twins 6-4 in K.C. Sunday to salvage the final game of the 3-game series. Esmerling Vazquez made his first major league start and allowed 7 hits and 5 earned runs in 5 2/3 innings to take the loss and drop to 0-1. Chris Parmelee was 2-4 with a solo homerun, Joe Mauer was 3-4 and Alexi Casilla went 2-4 with 2 RBIs for the Twins.