Wei-Yin Chen earns first major league win as Baltimore Orioles top Chicago White Sox 3-2 – The Washington Post

CHICAGO — Wei-Yin Chen walked out of the bathroom and was greeted with a shower of Gatorade and shaving cream. He kept a ball from his first major league win, and was still speechless long after he left the mound.

Chen pitched effectively into the sixth inning and Nolan Reimold homered for the fourth consecutive game, helping Baltimore beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 on Tuesday.  “This is just like a dream come true,” Chen said through an interpreter.

Chen allowed two runs and six hits over 5 1-3 innings in his second career game. The left-hander, a Taiwan native who pitched in Japan for the past four seasons, also was effective in his first start, allowing two earned runs in 5 2-3 innings against the Yankees.

“I feel like I’m really lucky tonight because compared with last start, I don’t have really good command,” Chen said. “I feel like last start was pretty good. Today is so-so.”  Chen (1-0) was working on a shutout before the White Sox chased him in the sixth. A.J. Pierzynski hit a two-run double into the right-field corner before Alex Rios singled to put runners on the corners with one out.

The White Sox had runners on the corners with one out when pinch-hitter Kosuke Fukudome lined to third. Alejandro De Aza then walked to load the bases but third baseman Wilson Betemit made a great play on Morel’s chopper to end the game…

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