The victory for White Sox stud starter Chris Sale was not official until nine innings were played. But he pretty much had it won before he took the mound. His team scored five runs for him in the top of the first.

Game, set, match.

Sale was his usual efficient and dominant self against the Indians. He allowed two runs on seven hits in seven innings with no walks and seven strikeouts. His lone hiccups were an RBI single by Jesus Aguilar in the fifth and run-scoring double by Giovany Urshela in the seventh.

The southpaw rebounded quite nicely from a rare poor outing Sunday. He has raised his record to 9-5 and lowered his ERA to 2.85.