As heard on WHOW, Carlos Rodon followed up his no-hitter - and near-perfect game - last week against Cleveland by hanging on for five innings and Jose Abreu homered twice, leading the Chicago White Sox to an 8-5 victory on Tuesday night.
Rodon (3-0), pitching in short sleeves despite temperatures dropping into the 30s and snow on the way, worked around five walks, giving up a homer and throwing 110 pitches - four fewer than in his gem on April 14.
The left-hander gave up two runs and three hits. Rodon joined Eddie Cicotte (1917) as the only pitchers in club history to face the same team in his next start after throwing a no-hitter. He was the first to do it since the Angels' Jered Weaver in 2012.
Abreu hit solo homers in the fourth (a 458-footer) and seventh innings.
Tim Anderson connected for a two-run homer off Zach Plesac (1-3) and Yasmani Grandal's two-run shot in the seventh put the White Sox ahead 7-2.
Jordan Luplow homered for the Indians, who scored twice in the ninth and stranded 13. Luplow also set an early tone against Rodon by drawing a nine-pitch walk to start the game.
The Indians made Rodon work harder, but still didn't do enough to beat him.
They had him in trouble in the fourth, loading the bases with none out on an error, catcher's interference and walk.
Rodon struck out two, and could have been in bigger trouble when Cesar Hernandez ripped an RBI single. But Josh Naylor, who was on second, got thrown out at the plate when he ran through third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh's stop sign.
During the game, MLB announced that White Sox outfielder Adam Eaton has been suspended one game for triggering a benches-clearing incident against the Indians last week - the day after Rodon's no-no.
Eaton thought Indians shortstop Andres Gimenez pushed him off the bag on a force out in the first inning. He shoved Gimenez, setting off some more pushing.
Hernandez and Indians first baseman Jake Bauers were fined undisclosed amounts.
The weather forecast doesn't look promising, but the Indians will start RHP Aaron Civale (3-0, 2.18 ERA). La Russa remains undecided on his starter for Wednesday. Hear tonight's action on WHOW with pregame at 4:30 pm and scheduled first pitch at 5:10 pm.
