Sox jump all over Masterson, Tribe 7-2.

 

CLEVELAND—Omar Vizquel has already borrowed Luis Aparicio’s No. 11. And for now, he’s sharing another number with his boyhood idol.Vizquel moved into a tie with the Hall of Famer for the second-most career hits by a shortstop, and Mark Teahen drove in three runs as the White Sox snapped a five-game losing streak to Cleveland by beating the hapless Indians 7-2 on Monday night.Vizquel singled in the fifth inning off Aaron Laffey for his 2,764th hit, tying Aparicio, his Venezuelan countryman and a man Ozzie Guillen called “an icon” in their homeland.Vizquel singled again in the ninth, but it came after he had been moved to third base so he remains tied with Aparicio.”That doesn’t count?” Vizquel said with a smile. “That’s a shame. What’s Ozzie doing?” Vizquel’s hit total as a shortstop is second only to New York Yankees star Derek Jeter, who entered the week with 2,782.Teahen hit a two-run double in the Sox four-run first inning off Justin Masterson (0-5), who lost his 11th straight decision. The right-hander hasn’t won in 16 starts since Aug. 20.Alex Rios hit his ninth homer for the White Sox. Masterson’s season-long slide shows no signs of slowing.The right-hander needed 44 pitches to get out of the first, and by the time he retired Vizquel on a fly to deep right for the third out, the Indians were already in a 4-0 hole.The Sox scored on Rios’ RBI groundout, Mark Kotsay’s run-scoring double and Teahen’s two-run double to left-center.Danks, meanwhile, set down the Indians on 13 pitches in the first and had four strikeouts in two innings before Cleveland threatened with a leadoff single and double in the third. The left-hander worked out of the jam, but couldn’t escape a similar mess in the fourth.The Indians, who have lost seven of eight, closed within 5-2 on Matt LaPorta’s RBI groundout and Lou Marson’s run-scoring single.The Sox answered with a run in the seventh when second baseman Mark Grudzielanek couldn’t handle Teahen’s hard single up the middle with a runner at third.

NOTES—Vizquel did pass Dave Parker for 58th place on the career hits list….Once a team that regularly fielded several All-Stars, the Indians are virtually being ignored in fan balloting. Shin-Soo Choo is the only Cleveland player being noticed, ranking 14th among outfielders…..Choo got his fifth assist in the ninth, throwing out Andruw Jones at the plate.