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CHICAGO -- Chicago White Sox left-hander Carlos Rodon will try to build on his recent success when he takes the mound against the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night.The 23-year-old southpaw is providing a rare bright spot in the second half for the White Sox (70-74), who are headed toward their eighth straight season without a playoff appearance. He has won five decisions in a row and posted seven consecutive quality starts, both of which mark career highs.Rodon cannot afford to relax against the first-place Indians (83-61), who hold a six-game lead in the American League Central and are on track to claim their first division title since 2007.Lately, however, Clevelands offense has gone cold. The Indians have lost back-to-back games against the White Sox and were outscored 19-5 during those contests. A seven-run sixth inning powered Chicago to an 8-1 win over Cleveland on Tuesday.Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor said he and his teammates needed to stay patient at the plate.Were going to lose games, but the way were losing games is not right, Lindor said. Weve got to continue to play the game hard, continue to go out there and battle day in and day out. Well be OK.The White Sox selected Rodon out of North Carolina State with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 draft. He opened this season with a woeful 2-8 record and a 4.67 ERA before finding his groove. In his past seven outings, he is 5-0 with a 1.85 ERA. He has improved his season totals to 7-8 with a 3.80 ERA.Right-hander Josh Tomlin (11-8, 4.85 ERA) will return to the Indians rotation Wednesday to make his first start since Aug. 30. The 31-year-old will pitch on eight days rest after his most recent appearance out of the bullpen Sept. 5. His return to the rotation was prompted by a forearm injury to right-hander Danny Salazar, whose status for the postseason could be in jeopardy.An up-and-down season for Tomlin has taken a particularly ugly turn as of late. In seven appearances (six starts) since Aug. 5, he is 0-5 with an 11.06 ERA. During the skid, he has surrendered 47 hits, including 10 home runs, in 27 2/3 innings.Tomlin has fared well against the White Sox during his career. He is 3-2 with a 3.22 ERA in eight games (seven starts). In his most recent outing at U.S. Cellular Field on May 24, he limited the South Siders to two runs in eight innings to earn the victory. His only blemish was allowing a home run to Adam Eaton.For the sake of Tomlin and the team, White Sox manager Robin Ventura hopes his teams hot hitting continues.Right now, they are just playing hard, Ventura said. Every guy is continuing to grind it out. Many guys across the board are contributing.Any time you do that, you play better. 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His game plan was excellent and it gave Wentz an opportunity to shine.I was excited for Carson, to see him play, Pederson said Monday. You want so badly for the guys to do well. But overall, felt really good and pleased with their performance. But from my standpoint, I was pretty calm.Pederson wasnt a popular choice to replace Chip Kelly. Many fans wanted a big-name coach or at least one with a pedigree.Instead, owner Jeffrey Lurie turned to a guy who had only been a head coach in high school. But Lurie was familiar with Pederson, who was a quarterback for the Eagles in 1999-2000 and an assistant coach under Andy Reid in Philly and Kansas City.Pederson clearly knows offense. He called several formations, used various personnel packages and kept the defense off-balance. He relayed the plays quickly to Wentz, giving him time to break the huddle, get to the line and survey the defense.One knock against Reid during his tenure in Philadelphia was wasting timeouts because the play clock was winding down.Its tremendous for us to get the play into him quickly because we do a lot of kill package plays and it just gives him time at the liine to see what hes seeing defensively and then put us in the right play, Pederson said.ddddddddddddThe Eagles were balanced with run-pass plays and dominated the game by controlling the ball almost 40 minutes.Time of possession was a sore topic the past three years when Kelly ran an up-tempo offense and the defense spent about 35 minutes per game on the field.The run game really helps in keeping your offense on the football field by keeping yourself in third-and-more-manageable, shorter situations that we had in the game, Pederson said. When you come away and look at (39) minutes of ball control, thats great. You should win the game.Pederson showed hes not afraid to gamble when he went for it on fourth-and-4 from the Browns 40 with a 15-10 lead in the third quarter. Wentz connected with Zach Ertz for a first down and tossed a 35-yard TD pass to Nelson Agholor on the next play.I know he has an aggressive nature about him, Wentz said about the call. I was pretty excited that he had the faith in me to call the fourth-and-4 play and put us in that situation.Game notes TE Ertz has a first rib displacement and CB Leodis McKelvin has a left hamstring strain. Pederson said both players are week to week so its unlikely either will play next Monday night at Chicago.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org---Follow Rob Maaddi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP-RobMaaddi ' ' '