CHICAGO - His kind of town? Chicago is ... definitely not.
Dustin Moseley, making a spot start in place of split-fingered Jered Weaver, was sliced up by the Chicago White Sox on Friday night, lasting just 11/3 innings in a 10-2 rout of the Angels.
Moseley retired just four of the 12 batters he faced, giving up six hits and two walks including a two-run home run to Juan Uribe.
Uribe added another two-run shot and Paul Konerko a solo shot off reliever Darren Oliver. The White Sox scored seven times in the first three innings and padded their major-league leading home run total even as they lost the AL leader, probably for the rest of the season.
Carlos Quentin's 36 home runs lead the league and account for a good chunk of the White Sox's 204 home runs. They have hit 124 at homer-happy U.S. Cellular Field and 23 in their past eight games overall.
"We were behind the eight-ball right away," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Those guys jumped on Dustin. He really couldn't get the balls into the zones he needed to."
The zone Moseley needs to avoid is the Central Time Zone. In two appearances here, Moseley has an 0-2 record and a 40.50 ERA (six runs in 11/3 innings).
In only his only other trip to the mound here, he came on in relief in the ninth inning of a tie game last Sept. 16, gave up a single to Darin Erstad and a game-ending home run to Jim Thome, the 500th home run of Thome's career.
"I didn't have much time to do anything," Moseley said. "It was tough. Overall, it was not what I wanted to do. Not at all. That wasn't the start I was looking for."
He should have known how things were going to go in the first inning when Konerko's dribbler foul took a sharp turn back into fair territory for a base hit.
With runners on first and second and two outs, Moseley was ahead of Konerko 0-and-2 with a chance to get out of the inning unharmed. Konerko chopped a grounder up the third-base line that hit the lip between the basepath dirt and the grass and bounced back into fair territory.
Third baseman Robb Quinlan reached for it, trying to keep his foot on third base for a forceout but the ball was rolling too slowly.
"I was playing pretty deep and went to go after it because you never know in situations like that,"
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