American League Playoff Scores: Evan Longoria Goes Deep Twice as Tampa Bay Rays Knock Off Chicago White Sox in Game One

Evan Longoria finished his first playoff game of his career 3-3 with a pair of homeruns and three RBIs, Akinori Iwamura had two hits and an RBI and James Shields tossed 6 1/3 innings allowing three runs as the Tampa Bay Rays won their first playoff game in franchise history, topping the Chicago White Sox 6-4 to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five playoff series.

Longoria got the scoring started for the Rays with a solo shot off White Sox starter Javier Vazquez in the second inning for a 1-0 lead. Chicago struck back in the top of the third inning as Dewayne Wise hit a two-out three-run blast off Shields to give the White Sox a 3-1 advantage.

Vazquez couldn’t hold that lead for Chicago though as Tampa struck back in the bottom half of the third as Iwamura tripled home Jason Bartlett and Willy Aybar followed with a sacrifice fly to left to plate Iwamura, tying the score at 3-3. Longoria then stepped to the plate and hit his second homerun in as many at-bats and the Rays were in front for good.

Tampa added a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth as Longoria singled home B.J. Upton and Carl Crawford added an RBI single that scored Aybar.

Dan Wheeler finished the day off for the Rays as he gave up a longball to Paul Konerko in the ninth but then set down Ken Griffey Jr., Alexei Ramirez and Jim Thome to earn the save.

Tampa will host Chicago again tomorrow with Scott Kazmir facing Mark Buehrle in Game Two. First pitch is set for 6:00 p.m. ET.

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