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Chris Sale forced Devan Dubnyk Jersey another avalanche of swings and misses. Helping at the bat, was an unexpected bonus. The Chicago White Sox lefty matched a major league record by striking out at least 10 in eight straight starts. In his 100th start he also got his first career hit and scored his first career run. ''I got to do a few things I normally Jaromir Jagr Orange Jersey don't do,'' Sale said after the White Sox outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in 11 innings on a home run by Tyler Flowers. ''It was fun, it was cool.'' Sale struck out 12 in eight innings. The lefty tied the mark set by Pedro Martinez in 1999 with Boston and gets a chance to break it this weekend at home against the Blue Jays - not that he's paying much attention. ''Those kinds of things don't really matter to me,'' Sale said. ''You start worrying about that stuff right now and we won't be talking about it anymore, that's for sure.'' Flowers, the White Sox catcher, said it'll be a surprise the next time Sale doesn't reach double digits in strikeouts. ''If he executes http://www.authenticwildshop.com/authentic-29-jason-pominville-jersey.html pitches he's hard to catch, much less trying to hit,'' Flowers said. ''I don't see any reason why he can't continue to put up these kind of strikeouts and these numbers.'' The White Sox ace had fanned every hitter in the St. Louis lineup by the end of the sixth. He is 0-2 with two no-decisions during the last four games of his streak, getting only four runs of support. Sale struck out the side in the third. He got his 10th strikeout against Jhonny Peralta in the sixth. Sale singled leading off the third, advanced Tyler Ennis Limited Jersey on a groundout and scored on Jose Abreu's one-out hit off the second-base bag. Sale had been 0 for 8 with six strikeouts in his career.