 pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings, rebounding nicely from a rocky start against Detroit.It was Phillips' first hit since he was acquired Friday in the trade that sent third baseman Mike Moustakas to Milwaukee. Phillips had to use Hunter Dozier's bat for his Kansas City debut Sunday against the Yankees after his lumber got lost while he was flying to New York to join his new team.He was reunited with his bats in time for the series opener against Chicago, and he looked quite comfortable on his fifth career homer in the seventh.The White Sox lost for the fifth time in six games. They wasted prime scoring opportunities in the fourth and eighth, and another threat in the sixth was curtailed by a mental mistake by Tim Anderson - prompting manager Rick Renteria to replace the young shortstop.Matt Davidson hit a two-run shot in the seventh for his eighth homer against the Royals this season. But Tim Hill got one out, Jason Hammel worked a rocky eighth and Wily Peralta finished for his sixth save.O'Hearn bounced to first in his first at-bat in the second. He came up again with one out and a runner on first in the fifth, and drove a 1-0 pitch from James Shields (4-13) over the wall in right.O'Hearn, an eighth-round pick in the 2014 draft, was promoted from Triple-A Omaha before the game. He turned 25 on Thursday.''It's been a lot of years in the making,'' he said before his debut.O'Hearn also walked and scored on Phillips' homer.Duffy allowed six hits, struck out seven and walked four. The left-hander went 3-2 with a 3.38 ERA in six July starts.Duffy got some help when the speedy Anderson failed to run out a low liner to third baseman Rosell Herrera with runners on first and second in the sixth. Third base umpire Lance Barksdale ruled the ball hit the ground - it looked as if it might have been caught cleanly - and Herrera threw late to second.But Whit Merrifield just jogged over and lobbed the ball to first baseman Lucas Duda for the final out of the inning. Renteria then put Nicky Delmonico in left and moved Leury Garcia to shortstop before the start of the seventh.ABOUT THAT DEADLINEThe White Sox acquired minor league left-hander Hunter Schryver from Tampa Bay for $1 million in international signing bonus pool money. Schryver, a seventh-round pick in the 2017 draft out of Villanova University, was assigned to Class A Winston-Salem.The Royals did not make a trade in the final hours before the non-waiver deadline. They dealt veteran third baseman Mike Moustakas to Milwaukee on Friday.TRAINER'S ROOMRoyals: OF Brian Goodwin was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a left groin strain. Goodwin got hurt running the bases on Saturday night against the Yankees. ''It's a mild strain,'' manager Ned Yost said. Goodwin is 8 for 17 with a homer and four RBIs in five games with Kansas City after he was acquired in a trade with Washington. ... INF Cheslor Cuthbert, who is out with a lower back strain, was transferred to the 60-day DL.White Sox: OF Luis Robert, one of Chicago's top prospects, was slated to begin a rehab assignment with the Arizona League White Sox. Robert had been sidelined by a left thumb injury.UP NEXTJakob Junis (5-11, 5.06 ERA) and Dylan Covey (4-6, 5.40 ERA) pitch Wednesday night in a matchup of struggling right-handers. Junis is 0-8 with a 6.98 ERA in his last nine starts for Kansas City. Covey has one win and an 8.73 ERA over his last seven starts.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap---More baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball)
StubHubStubHubWhite Sox aim to keep beating Royals 4h ago• 2 min read The Chicago White Sox have been the underdog in the overwhelming majority of their games this season.However, there is an exception to every rule. For the White Sox, that exception is facing the Kansas City Royals, against whom they have played like heavy favorites.Chicago (37-68) will try to keep the one-sided rivalry intact when they open a three-game series against the Royals on Tuesday night at Guaranteed Rate Field. The series will conclude a six-game homestand for the White Sox.In 10 games against the Royals this year, the White Sox are 7-3 with a whopping run differential of 64-39. Chicago has won two of three home games and five of seven road games against their fellow American League Central club.The most recent series involved two blowouts with the White Sox scoring nine runs in the opener and 10 runs in the finale. The White Sox also scored a season-high 14 runs against the Royals on opening day March 29.Since then, the season has only soured more for Kansas City (32-73), which is on pace for a 113-loss campaign. That would mark the worst season in franchise history, topping the 106-loss effort of 2005.Royals general manager Dayton Moore is not happy about the dreadful season."I'm embarrassed the way our major league team has performed, OK?" Moore said Monday during an interview with MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM, as reported by the Kansas City Star. "I didn't necessarily expect us to be in the playoffs this year, but I didn't expect us to be on pace to lose 100-plus games."That's embarrassing to me personally, it's embarrassing to our organization. (Team owner David Glass) doesn't expect that, either, so we've got to do a better job of that. ... (Former Detroit Tigers general manager) Bill Lajoie told me this a long time ago: Major league players aren't paid to play, they're paid to win. And so it's our responsibility to get players on this major league team that understand that, and they have to go out and compete." Royals left-hander Danny Duffy (6-9, 4.70 ERA) will make his 23rd start of the year. In 23 career games (21 starts) against the White Sox, he is 8-6 with a 4.28 ERA. His eight wins against Chicago are the most against any opponent.White Sox right-hander James Shields (4-12, 4.53) also will make his 23rd start. He has faced the Royals (one of his former teams) 15 times in his career, going 9-2 with a 4.08 ERA in 99 1/3 innings.Chicago's big wins over Kansas City have provided bright spots to the club during a trying season."It's not an easy process," White Sox manager Rick Renteria said to the Chicago Sun-Times earlier this month. "All of us share it through the daily grind, and we sure are elated every night that we have a victory and go through the suffering when (we) don't."And then even through a victory and or defeat, you're going through the process of trying to clean up things that occurred during the ballgame to try to make it as an efficient and good a team as possible."
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