Talking Baseball

The White Sox win the American League Central division title and will face the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday in game one of the division series in Tampa.

Jim Thome hit a solo homerun in the bottom of the seventh for the lone run of the game. It was Thome’s 541st homerun of his career.

The White Sox win 1-0 behind eight shutout innings from starter John Danks and a 1,2,3 save from Bobby Jenks. Danks allowed only two hits and struck out four en route to his 12th win of the season (12-9).

It was Jenks’ 30th save of the season.

Center fielder Brian Anderson, in as a defensive replacement for veteran Ken Griffey Jr., made a diving catch of a ball off the bat of Alexi Casilla to end the game.

Anderson originally entered the game in the bottom of the seventh as a pinch runner for Junior after Junior hit a double.

This was the lowest scoring tie breaking game in Major League Baseball history. It also had the lowest total of hits in a tie breaking game between the two teams with seven.

This is the first time since 2005, the year the White Sox won the World Series, that the ChiSox are back in the playoffs.