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Chris Sale falls short of strikeout record, but makes quick work of Blue Jays

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Chris Sale was four strikeouts shy of history Monday night — and that wasn't the only thing that was short.

Sale and the Chicago White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays by the count of 4-2 in a game that lasted just one hour and 55 minutes, making it the shortest MLB game in four years. Don't attribute this to those new pace-of-play rules, rather it's what happens when Sale and Blue Jays pitcher Mark Buehrle, two brisk workers on the mound, are matched up against each other.

Back to that other bit of history: Sale could have been the first pitcher to strikeout 10 or more hitters in nine consecutive starts, passing Pedro Martinez in 1999. But Sale finished the game with six Ks, which sync up with the six hits he allowed in his complete-game outing.

Strikeout history would have been nice, but Sale said he's fine with a White Sox win:

"I'll take this outcome over that any day," Sale said. "I mean, it's one of those things, it's cool, it's fine. But we won the game, and I'm not gonna pout at all."

The outcome looked like it might be flipped when Josh Donaldson hit a solo homer in the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie, but the White Sox scored three runs in the eighth on a Jose Abreu single that tied the game and a two-run Melky Cabrera double that put Chicago ahead.

ROLLINS' GO-AHEAD HIT HELPS DODGERS IN FIRST GAME VS. PHILLIES
In his first game ever playing against the Philadelphia Phillies, Jimmy Rollins delivered. The Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop — traded from Philly to Cali in the offseason — broke a 7-7 tie with a two-run single in the bottom of the seventh.

The Dodgers won the game 10-7, with Rollins coming around to score that 10th run too. Afterward, he told reporters:

“When you get a hit like that it feels good, no matter who you’re playing against,” Rollins said. “If you don’t, it’s like, ‘Dammit.’ And I definitely didn’t want to have a ‘dammit’ moment against my former team.”

As quick as the Blue Jays-White Sox game was, this was the opposite. It lasted four hours and 13 minutes.

DOZIER BEATS ORIOLES WITH WALK-OFF HOMER
Put this highlight in Brian Dozier's All-Star campaign. The Minnesota Twins' second baseman, who is one of five players in the AL's "Final Vote," hit a tenth-inning, walk-off homer to sink the Baltimore Orioles 4-2.

It came just hours after Dozier was announced as one of the finalists in the "Final Vote," so the timing couldn't have been better on both accounts. It was also Dozier's first career walk-off homer and, as you can tell, he was thrilled.

METS SCORE THREE IN THE NINTH TO BEAT SLUMPING GIANTS
The San Francisco Giants, losers of six straight, had to be looking at the zeroes on the scoreboard Monday and think it was their night. Problem was, both they and the New York Mets owned those zeroes. It was 0-0 into the ninth inning, and that's when the Mets scored three runs and locked down a 3-0 win.

Johnny Monell hit a two-run double that cracked the game open, and Juan Lagares singled him home for another run. Jon Niese pitched three-hit ball over eight innings to get the win, while the Giants' skid hits seven straight losses.

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