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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) _ Indoors, James Baldwin is nearly unbeatable. Baldwin struck out eight in 5 1-3 innings, then left after he was hit by a line drive as the Chicago White Sox beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 7-1 Wednesday night. At Tropicana Field, Baldwin is 4-0, allowing five earned runs in 27 innings. He's 13-1 overall indoors, but just 37-40 outside. Against the Devil Rays, Baldwin (2-0) allowed one run and five hits. He was struck in the rib cage by Greg Vaughn's line drive in the sixth, fell down and rolled onto his stomach. After he was examined for three minutes on the mound, Baldwin was helped to his feet and walked off the field under his own power. At 6-3, Chicago matched its best start since 1992. The White Sox, who end a season-opening 10-game road trip Thursday, have 10 or more hits in seven of nine games. Tampa Bay, which has lost seven of eight, became the first AL team since the 1993 Kansas City Royals to lose its first five home games. The Devil Rays have been outscored 57-20 during the past five games. Magglio Ordonez, in a 4-for-24 slide coming in, was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs. Ray Durham was 3-for-5 with an RBI triple. Frank Thomas, expected to be sidelined several days by a sore right foot, was in the lineup as the designated hitter following pregame treatment. He went 2-for-5 and extended his season-opening hitting streak to nine games. Chicago scored once in the each of the first three innings. Ordonez had an RBI single in the first and a solo homer to right-center field in the third. Durham's triple came in the second. Jose Valentin had a two-run triple and Ordonez hit an RBI single as the White Sox went up 6-0 in the fourth inning, chasing Dan Wheeler (0-1), who allowed six runs and nine hits in 3 2-3 innings. Notes: The Devil Rays fired pitching coach Rick Williams and replaced him with Bill Fischer, the pitching coach for Atlanta's Triple-A team at Richmond of the International League. ... Ordonez worked on going the other way in early batting practice, and all his hits were to center or the opposite field. ... Devil Rays LHP Jim Morris, the 36-year old former teacher, received a standing ovation after striking three of the four hitters he faced. When facing Frank Thomas in the sixth, Morris fell down while in his windup and then struck out the DH on the next pitch. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Chi. White Sox Clubhouse Tampa Bay Clubhouse RECAPS NY Yankees 8 Texas 6
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