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MINNEAPOLIS -- In May, the Chicago White Sox were dreaming of a possible playoff race with three left-handers anchoring the starting rotation.One day away from the major-league trade deadline, Chicago is now a seller and uncertainty marks each of left-handers Carlos Rodon, Chris Sale and Jose Quintana.Brian Dozier hit two home runs to spoil Rodons first start since July 5, and the Minnesota Twins handed the White Sox a 6-4 loss on Sunday. Melky Cabrera had three hits for Chicago, which lost for the fourth time in five games.Its not an excuse, Rodon (2-8) said of his absence while recovering from a sprained left wrist. I just got to be better. A team scores four runs, you got to keep these guys at less than four, man, thats my job. I didnt do it today.The recent stretch only reinforced the White Sox trade-deadline position. Before the game, Chicago traded left-handed reliever Zach Duke to the St. Louis Cardinals for speedy minor-league outfielder Charlie Tilson.Sale and Quintana, meanwhile, have been mentioned in trade rumors leading into Mondays deadline after the team started 23-10 this season and had Sale looking like a Cy Young Award candidate.The White Sox are 6-11 since the All-Star break after previously trading for starter James Shields and signing Justin Morneau as a free agent.Rodon managed to last 6 1/3 innings in his return to the rotation but gave up five earned runs and eight hits with two walks and seven strikeouts. Kennys Vargas hit a two-run homer as part of a three-run first inning for Minnesota.They jumped on him pretty good there early, Chicago manager Robin Ventura said. Probably knocked a little rust off, and get back into it. He battled back. Velocity-wise, he started getting a little stronger as the game went along. I think thats maybe par for the course for as long as hes been away, and still trying to feel for it somewhat.Rodon lost his fourth straight decision and allowed two home runs for the third straight start. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 draft, Rodon owns a 4.67 ERA and has giving up 14 earned runs in his last three starts.Not everybody gets it the first time through, that they become dominant, Ventura said. Stuff-wise, hes got some great stuff. Youre going to have to find your way and I think thats part of what hes going through right now. Hes a thrower, not a feel guy, hes just trying to rear back and let it go. Part of that is believing in that.Twins starter Ervin Santana (4-9) didnt allow a hit until Adam Eatons leadoff bloop single in the fourth. Santana allowed three runs -- one earned -- in six innings with five strikeouts. Ryan Pressly gave up a double to Cabrera but recorded his first major-league save.Cabrera was stranded at third base to end the game when Morneau struck out.COUNTING ON CABRERACabrera recorded his fourth straight multi-hit game and his 12th three-hit game of the season. Hes hit safely in 15 of his last 16 games, hitting .385 during that stretch.Cabrera has particularly enjoyed facing Minnesota, with a .429 average in 10 games against the Twins this season.Hes so professional about the way he approaches things, Ventura said. He can pull it. He can hit it the other way. Hes not trying to do too much, hes just putting it on the barrel and its taking off.TRAINERS ROOMWhite Sox: Todd Frazier returned after missing two games with the flu. Manager Robin Ventura said Frazier was better but not feeling all the way back to 100 percent. Frazier started at first base and went 0 for 2 with two walks.UP NEXTWhite Sox: Chicago begins a series at Detroit with RHP James Shields (5-12, 4.68 ERA) starting against RHP Anibal Sanchez (5-11, 6.56). Shields pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings against the Chicago Cubs in his last outing. Cheap Air Jordan Canada . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. Discount Air Jordan . -- Jacksonville wide receiver Cecil Shorts will likely be a game-time decision whether hell play Sunday in the Jaguars home game against the San Diego Chargers. http://www.cheapairjordancanada.com/ . A lawyer for MLB, Matthew Menchel, confirmed Wednesday the league dropped its case against Biogenesis of America, its owner Anthony Bosch and several other individuals. The lawsuit had accused Biogenesis and Bosch of conspiring with players to violate their contracts by providing them with banned performance-enhancing substances. Air Jordan Canada . -- Yogi Ferrell orchestrates pretty much everything in Indianas offence. Air Jordan Canada Online . White came in fourth place in the event. He was the two-time defending gold medallist. The gold medal went to Swiss snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov. Dipa Karmakars coach Bishweshwar Nandi believes that Sundays apparatus finals at the Rio Olympics is anyones game, given that the eight competitors start with a fresh slate.?Dipa had finished eighth in the qualifiers after scoring 14.850 points from her first two vaults, but Nandi is hopeful that Dipas past experience in Rio, including a gold medal at a test event in April, will give her an edge over the others.?We hope it [the Rio test gold event] will have an effect on her tomorrow, Nandi told ESPN. Of the eight in the final, the first two-three contenders are just exceptional and I cant claim that Dipa is better than them; these girls are very good.But the final competition of eight is a fresh slate. In the world championship, Simone Biles, who had been No.1 in the team and all-round event, finished the vault at No.3. The person who the stars favour on that particular day will take home a medal. My hope is that Dipa will do well.As a coach, I cannot say for sure she will take home a medal, but anything can happen. As a coach, what I can say is that each of the eight vault finalists are potential medalists. To be at an Olympic final is a very big achievement by itself.Dipas composed confidence and execution of the Produnova, the vault with the highest D-(for difficulty)-value in the womens vault, has become her signature move.At the qualifiers,?Dipa scored 15.100 in the Produnova (7 for difficulty + 8.1 for Execution) and 14.6 in the Zamolodchikova (6 for difficulty + 8.6 for execution). In fact, during qualification, she was the only gymnast to successfully attempt the Produnova.?Nandi revealed that Dipa would be attempting two vaults in the final - the Produnova, and the Tsukahara 720, which consists of a half turn off the springboard onto the vault table, then a push backwards.?We did a very serious practice. I told her that now that you are in the final, this is more serious and you haave to try and sort out the errors you made in qualification, that is the aim of this practice, Nandi said.ddddddddddddTry and get to do your routines better and we can get a better result. We have good feelings about it. We hope to do well in the final. We will try and do much better than what we have done in the previous round as well and hope that we will have a good result.I need to have her to do the Produnova a couple of times more. Before we came to the Olympics, we were able to practice the vault a lot at the great facilities given to us by SAI. And now no matter what people say, she is comfortable executing the Produnova vault. She is not afraid while doing it and she is able to execute it comfortably.The question on everyones mind is, does repeatedly practicing the Produnova take a physical toll on the body and knees??Its not like we talk to her about the load on her knees while doing the vault, Nandi explained.?Also, its not that it takes a lot away from her knees while performing this in practice in the run up to a competition. The stress is on the ankle and the back but she has practiced this so many times. Fortunately she is is far away from the impact of the vault being felt on either of those parts of the body at the moment.Nandi said that he was overall pleased with Dipas preparations for Rio, especially when pitted against the likes of Biles, who has been doing this for many years.?Gymnasts like Simone come from sports-developed countries which have very different training schedules from ours. They have four-yearly plans for the Olympics.Dipas schedule has been completely different, as she qualified in the Test event in April. In May we started the SAI camp, and we have done three months of good practice at IG stadium in Delhi for this Olympics. ' ' '