Nick Weglarz, coming off right thumb surgery that cut short his season at Class AAA Columbus, is scheduled to play winter ball for Caracas in Venezuela.
Updated: 10:07 p.m.
CHICAGO, Ill -- This is a daily briefing of the Indians 2010 regular season. The Indians play the White Sox tonight at U.S. Cellular Field to start the final series of the season.
U.S. Cellular Field dimensions: Left field line 330 feet, left center 375, center field 400, right center 375, right field line 335.
In-game notes:
Score: Indians 6, White Sox 2 after six innings.
Fausto on fire: Fausto Carmona, after allowing two runs in the first two innings, found his groove and held the White Sox to one hit from the third through the sixth. The Indians chased Tony Pena after six.
Quick start: Michael Brantley and Asdrubal Cabrera opened the game with doubles against Pena for a 1-0 lead. Shin-Soo Choo followed with a two-run homer to make it 3-0.
Choo has 22 homers.
Counterattack: The White Sox scored once in the first and second against Carmona to make it 3-2. Luis Valbuena let Dayan Viciedo's bouncer get past him behind second base with two out in the first as Mark Teahyen scored.
Chicago made it 3-2 when Brent Morel hit a leadoff homer in the second off the left field foul pole.
Three spot: The Indians stretched their lead to 6-2 with three runs in the third. Pena wild pitched Brantley home with the bases loaded. Jayson Nix followed with a sac-fly and Trevor Crowe singled home Nix.
The line: Pena allowed six runs on nine hits in six innings. He struck out two and walked two. He threw 104 pitches, 71 strikes.
Pre-game notes:
Game 160: If not for a right thumb injury that required surgery, outfielder Nick Weglarz would have made his big league debut with the Indians this year along with just about every other player at Class AAA Columbus.
Lonnie Soloff, Indians head athletic trainer, said Weglarz is recovering nicely from the thumb surgery. The left-handed hitter is scheduled to play in Venezuela for Caracas this winter.
Dave Hudgens, one of the Indians minor league field coordinators, will manage Caracas for the second straight year. Jared Goedert, one of Weglarz's teammates at Columbus, is scheduled to play there as well.
Weglarz hit .284 (89-for 313) with 51 runs, 27 doubles, 13 homers and 47 RBI between Class AA Akron and Columbus this year. He had an onbase percentage of .389 and a slugging percentage of .502 for an .891 OPS.
-Quick hits:
-Justin Germano is in line to start Sunday's season finale against Chicago unless he's needed tonight or Saturday.
"He can go more than one inning because he was starting at Columbus," said manager Manny Acta. "Then we'll just go one inning at a time. We've got enough pitchers."
-Some like it hot: In a tweet from Drew Pomeranz, Indians No.1 pick this year, he said he "loved' pitching in the 105 degree heat of Goodyear, Ariz., during Instructional League.
Pomeranz threw three innings, allowing one unearned run with six strikeouts against Seattle, on Wednesday. In two starts in Instructional League, he's allowed one earned run in five innings. He's allowed two hits, one walk and struck out nine.
More news from the desert: Soloff said Anthony Reyes is scheduled to start pitching in Instructional League games next week. He underwent Tommy John surgery last year and still hasn't made it all the way back.
Soloff added that Adam Miller, former No.1 pick, is throwing simulated games in Arizona. This is probably Miller's last chance to resurrect his pitching career.
He was sidelined by a balky middle finger on his right hand that has been operated on at least four times. According to research by the Indians, Miller's finger injury is the only one of its kind.
Lineups:
-Indians (68-91): CF Michael Brantley (S), SS Asdrubal Cabrera (S), RF Shin-Soo Choo (L), DH Travis Hafner (L), 3B Jayson Nix (R), LF Trevor Crowe (S), lB Matt LaPorta (R), 2B Luis Valbuena (L), C Lou Marson (R) and RHP Fausto Carmona (12-14, 3.79).
White Sox (86-73): LF Juan Pierre (L), SS Omar Vizquel (S), RF Mark Teahen (L), 1B Dayan Viciedo (R), DH Mark Kotsay (L), C Tyler Flowers (R), 3B Brent Morel (R), CF Alejandro De Aza (L), 2B Brent Lillibridge (R) and RHP Tony Pena (5-2, 4.85).
Umpires: H Cory Blaser, 1B Dan Iassogna, 2B John Tumpane, 3B Jerry Meals.
Quote of the day: "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring," Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby.
Next: RHP Carlos Carrasco (2-1, 3.26) vs. LHP Mark Buehrle (12-13, 4.32) on Saturday at 7:05 p.m. ET.