Sox hammer Halos behind Floyd and Quentin

The White Sox remained red hot with an almost wire to wire 9-2 rout of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in front of the Sox fifth sellout of the season. Gavin Floyd,at last had some run support and worked 7 innings of 5 hit ball to out duel Scott Kazmir.Alexi Ramirez homered in the first top put the Sox ahead for good in this one. Brent Lillibridge singled in Andruw Jones in the second inning and it stayed 2-0 until ther Halos got on the board in the 6th when Eric Bybar doubled and scored on a grounder by by Bobby Abreu. But the Sox answered fast in the home half of the sixth.Paul Konerko singled in Juan Pierre who had led off the inning with a walk. Carlos Quentin,who had robbed Torii Hunter of extra bases in the first inning,then launced his first of two homers on the night to make it 5-1.Dayan Viciedo hit his first Big League homer in the Sox 7th and then Ramirez singled in Lillibridge as Kazmir was chased.The Angels got one in the top of the 8th off Bobby Jenks when Howie Kendrick picked up one of his three hits, but they left the bases loaded when Sergio Santos fanned Mike Napoli to end the threat.Quentin’s second long ball of the night came in the bottom of the eight to key a two run inning and finish the scoring.

NOTES—The Sox have won 15 of their last 19 games……Jake Peavy(7-6)opposes Jared Weaver(8-3)in Tuesday night second game of the series.

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