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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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Collaros also started Torontos 23-20 regular-season finale loss to Montreal — Ray didnt dress because the Argos had already clinched first in the East Division — but was one of three quarterbacks to play that day.Englands batsmen displayed impressive defensive skill on day four in Visakhapatnam to lift their hopes of a draw. But they still have to play out an entire day on a pitch that is no longer as trustworthy as it was before. There is substantial rough outside the left-handers off stump for Ravindra Jadeja to exploit from the Press Box End and R Ashwin has benefited from variable bounce at the Pavilion End.More importantly, India were able to break through a remarkably stubborn opening stand when Haseeb Hameed was lbw to a grubber. They also dismissed Alastair Cook in the last over of the day and with a minimum of 90.4 more left in the game and 317 runs in the bank, they are confident of going 1-0 up in the series.We are happy with the way things went, Cheteshwar Pujara said at the end of day four. We got two wickets. We knew that it wont be easy to get them out but we had our plans and we knew what we wanted to do. Ultimately we achieved what we wanted.Things wouldnt come easy for us also. We know that they are capable of batting well, so we wouldt take things for granted. Tomorrow we will definitely have to come hard at them. But we are prepared for it.When it comes to Test cricket, our bowlers and as a team we are prepared to be in a situation where we have to work hard for our wickets but when we see a victory, wwe know that we can get eight more wickets.dddddddddddd I dont know in how many overs but we have got a very good chance tomorrow, we will come hard tomorrow.After stumps on the fourth day, Virat Kohli rounded up his men in a huddle and was seen speaking animatedly to them. It seemed like he was getting them ready for a fight. Not the worst thinking considering that while there was help available to the bowlers, it didnt necessarily equate to a torrent of wickets. India had to put in 59.2 overs of hard work to pick up two of them.The main reason for that was how well Cook and Hameed batted. They added 75 runs in 50.2 overs, the third-longest opening partnership in the fourth innings of a Test in this country. India have broken through one blockathon before, against South Africa in Delhi last year. Can they do a repeat?Pujara believes so. I believe this wicket is such that if you play defensive, it is slightly difficult to get a batsman out but still as we saw today, there is low bounce. One or two balls from Ashwin bounced, from the rough. Jadeja was able to get a lot of bounce. Even if you play defensive also it is not easy, I dont think it will be an easy task to bat on this wicket. ' ' '