ST. PETERSBURG -- Daniel Palka walked to the plate with four strikeouts in the rearview mirror. In the ninth, the White Sox DH made contact, and that proved to be the difference in an 8-7 win over the Rays Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field.
Palka re-routed a 96-mph Diego Castillo sinker and deposited the baseball 439 feet over the center-field wall to give the White Sox an 8-6 lead. The Rays scored in the bottom half of the inning on Kevin Kiermaier's RBI double, but it wasn't enough to avoid the loss and a three-game sweep as Tampa Bay fell to 56-56 on the season.