White Sox snap 12-game losing streak with win over Orioles

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BALTIMORE -- Jonathan Cannon pitched into the sixth inning and the Chicago White Sox homered three times, snapping their 12-game losing streak with an 8-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.

Nicky Lopez, Andrew Vaughn and Dominic Fletcher went deep for the White Sox, who improved to 32-109 this season. They need to go 11-10 the rest of the way to avoid matching the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 New York Mets.

This was their third losing streak of at least 12 games this season -- no team had ever done that since 1900 -- but Lopez led off the game with a homer and the White Sox looked a lot sharper than they did while losing the…