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want their young pitchers looking strong down the stretch as they eye a step forward in 2019.Reynaldo Lopez is doing his part.Lopez was sharp again Saturday night over seven innings to continue his late-season surge and lift the Chicago White Sox to a 2-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.The 24-year-old Lopez (6-9) has a 1.10 ERA over his past five starts. He struck out six and allowed four hits and a walk this time to help Chicago to just its sixth winning streak of at least three games.In his first full big league season Carlos Gomez Jersey , Lopez has thrown 175 2/3 innings, and White Sox manager Rick Renteria has no plans to pull the reins back.“Basically, our eyes are telling us where they’re at,” Renteria said. “If you look at Lopy, he’s freaking throwing 97-98 mph. I’d be hard-pressed to tell you guys he’s really struggling.”Yolmer Sanchez broke a scoreless tie with an RBI double in the sixth, chasing rookie Yefry Ramirez (1-6) from his longest big league outing with two outs. Avisail Garcia tied a career high with his 18th home run in the ninth.Caleb Frare retired two batters in the eighth, and Juan Minaya got the last four outs for his first save as the Orioles were shut out for the 14th time this season.“It would have been a little different situation if we didn’t let them have that tack-on run,” Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. “But you’re not going to win any games not scoring any runs.”Lopez was acquired from Washington after the 2016 season in the trade that sent outfielder Adam Eaton to the Nationals. The hard-throwing right-hander has been inconsistent since the deal but excellent down the stretch.“He’s showing you he’s got endurance, strength, (and) he’s gaining understanding of the situation http://www.raysfanproshop.com/authentic-adeiny-hechavarria-jersey , how to work and manage the situations, which is really big,” Renteria said. “It speaks a lot for him, because he continues to work and grind and learn.”He retired 13 out of 14 batters before Renato Nunez singled in the fifth and became the first runner to reach second on Lopez’s wild pitch. DJ Stewart popped out to end the threat.Two innings later, Lopez worked out of a two-on, one-out jam. He fanned Tim Beckham with a curveball to end a 10-pitch at-bat, then pumped his fist as Nunez popped his 104th pitch to second.“I was just trying to keep the control of the game,” Lopez said through an interpreter. “Sometimes the game is a little fast. And then you have to control it. You have to slow down. And I think that is what I did in that inning.”HARD-LUCK LOSSIn his first start in nearly a month, Ramirez was nearly as good, tying a career high with seven strikeouts while yielding four hits and a walk.“That is tough to do when you’ve not started and been in the bullpen Sergio Romo Jersey ,” Orioles catcher Caleb Joseph said. “Really nice job. It’s a shame we couldn’t push across anything for him there.”FOUR IS A CHARMThe victory was Chicago’s fourth win of the season over the Orioles, guaranteeing them the victory in the clubs’ season series for the first time since 2008.TRAINER’S ROOMWhite Sox: Renteria planned to play IF Matt Davidson (calf) at first base Sunday after giving him his first start in five games as the DH on Saturday. … RHP Nate Jones (right elbow) was not yet available to pitch back-to-back games after working an inning Friday in his second outing following a three-month layoff.Orioles: RHP Luis Ortiz left Friday’s game with a left hamstring injury and may need an MRI. … RHP Andrew Cashner (left knee) will not make his scheduled start Monday, manager Buck Showalter said after Saturday’s game.UP NEXTWhite Sox: Lucas Giolito (10-10) makes his first career start at Camden Yards. He allowed seven runs in 1 1/3 innings in his previous start against the Orioles on May 24.Orioles: David Hess (3-10, 5.17) has won just one of his last 15 starts. In his last start, Hess allowed six runs, just two earned in five innings at Tampa Bay on Sept. 8. The red-hot Tampa Bay Rays turn to their second straight “opener” when they go for the sweep of their three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday at The Trop.Diego Castillo was the reliever starting Saturday’s game as Ryan Yarbrough winning his 14th game of the season in relief. Sunday, it will be Ryne Stanek, who faced one batter in relief Saturday and Yonny Chirinos is set up to work the long “relief” stint.Whatever manager Kevin Cash does these days seems to be working.Article continues below ...The Rays are 13 games over .500 for the first time in five years. They have won six of their last seven and 15 of their last 18 overall, have won 10 straight at home and are keeping their long shot wild card hopes alive.“We’re enjoying coming to the field each and every day,” a sizzling Kevin Kiermaier Matt Duffy Jersey , who had two more hits Saturday, told Rays radio after the 10-5 victory that sent the Orioles to their 101st loss of this dreadful season. “We know that we’re on the outside looking in right now but if we just coming to the field each and every day and playing the way we have been of late, we can make things really interesting if other teams scuffle down the road.“All we can control is us and what we do every day and that’s what we’re focused on right now – and that’s why the results have been so good as of late.”The Rays have outscored the Orioles 24-7 and struck out 25 Baltimore hitters in the first two games of the series.The Rays (77-64) were supposed to have faced former teammate Alex Cobb, who has come on following a 2-14 start (after signing late). But the veteran right-hander has a blister, pushing him back until Tuesday. Instead, left-hander Josh Rogers (1-1, 4.35 ERA), one of three young pitchers acquired from the New York Yankees in the Zach Britton deal, will make his third major league start.Rogers has worked 10 1/3 innings in two starts and has his first big league win under his belt. There had been talk he would be shut down having reached 150 innings for the season, but he will work Sunday.The Orioles http://www.raysfanproshop.com/authentic-steven-souza-jersey , who had been 8-8 against the Rays heading into this series, are steaming toward the club record of 107 losses and sit at 41-101 with 20 games remaining.David Hess, who was hit in the eye with a football prior to Friday night’s game and was seen in the dugout wearing an LSU football helmet after returning from the doctor, worked five innings and took the loss Saturday. He allowed seven hits and six runs — two earned — in falling to 3-10 (two of his wins are against Tampa Bay).A nightmarish first inning in the field – four unearned runs – put the Orioles in the hole Saturday and they never made it back.“I like the way he finished,” manager Buck Showalter told MASN’s post-game show. “We didn’t help him very much. I counted four or five errors – only one on the board – it took him a while to find his step and gain his confidence but I like the way he finished.“He dug himself a pretty good hole but didn’t sit around feeling sorry for himself.”Showalter added, “You can always take something from it but you just gotta not make the same mistakes. It’s a problem that a lot of our guys are having – it’s command of the fastball in the strike zone. You’re trying to go in you leak it out over the middle of the plate, you try and go away and you jerk it middle in. You pay for those things – but we didn’t help him either.”