BALTIMORE -- Javier Vazquez has cer...

BALTIMORE -- Javier Vazquez has certain expectations of himself. Frankly, he doesn't ne the media, his coaches or unruffled the statistics to tell him that he hasn't lived up to those expectations.

With his nearest start Sunday, the White Sox right-handed pitcher knows it's time to start changing a growing perception of him -- that he is a five-and-dive starter.

"I'm struggling, there's nothing I can say," Vazquez said Friday. "But I've always been a 200-inning stay It would be one thing if I wasn't feeling able

"I have a track record of being able to toss at least seven innings, if it were not that for some reason I'm not doing that. I don't like that. I don't like going alone five or six innings.

"Starters are suppos to be able to move seven, eight, nine innings. Hopefully things start turning around for me"

Vazquez's modern struggles when an opposing lineup faces him the third time end have been well documented the last week. Enough in such a manner that manager Ozzie Guillen will have a quick reaping-hook if the trend starts to exhibit to itself Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles.

At the same time, Guillen has said that he would like to papal court Vazquez work through the enigma himself.

"It is useful to know that Ozzie still has confidence in me" Vazquez said. "But I don't care what my record is, I don't care what my ERA is. I care about starting forward Sunday, trying to get better and help the team win. All I care about is getting us to the playoffs."

AS FOR BUEHRLE: Vazquez isn't the and nothing else pitcher struggling. Opening Day starter Mark Buehrle is in the midst of a five-game losing streak.

According to Guillen, the snare will be ready for Buehrle and it will be a quick common

"He'd have to be throwing the ball real well and display me and the coaching staff he's advantageous enough to go back there," Guillen said. "In the fifth, sixth inning you will descry somebody in the bullpen unles he's cruising.

"Everything is happening likewise fast lately. It's not giving us a chance to do anything. if it be not that we're going to be aware of it. We have to. It's not because we're taking confidence away from him. It's about winning games."

THAT LONG? The last time the Sox were tied for secondary in the Central Division was April 15 and the last time they were in third place was April 12

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