• When: Today and Wednesday, 8:05 p.m.; Thursday, 7:05 p.m.

        • Where: Comiskey Park, Chicago. • Radio: WLW-AM (700).

        • TV: Fox Sports Network, today only.

        • Records: Cincinnati 25-36, fifth place NL Central; Chicago 27-32, third place AL Central).

        • Probable starting pitchers: Today, RHP Elmer Dessens (5-2, 4.06) vs. LHP David Wells (4-5, 4.67); Wednesday, RHP Rob Bell (0-4, 5.35) vs. LHP Mark Buehrle (4-3, 3.36); Thursday, RHP Osvaldo Fernandez (5-6, 6.55) vs. RHP James Baldwin (2-4, 4.36).

        • The bats: Chicago captured its weekend series against the crosstown Cubs and has won 13 of its last 16 games. But without injured Frank Thomas, the White Sox lineup doesn't prompt fear. Carlos Lee (.314, nine homers, 34 RBI), Jose Valentin, now injured, (.290, 13 homers, 32 RBI) and Magglio Ordonez (.286, 12 homers, 41 RBI) are respectable. Ex-Red Paul Konerko (.256, 10 homers, 31 RBI) has slipped from last year.

        • The arms: Wells, the subject of countless trade rumors, helped the Reds win the 1995 NL Central title after joining them from Detroit in a trading-deadline deal. He was 6-5 with a 3.59 ERA as a Red before winning a game in the Division Series over Los Angeles and losing a game at Atlanta in the League Championship Series.

        • The rest: The Reds are 2-6 all-time against the White Sox, whose three-game sweep last year at Cinergy Field began Cincinnati's descent. The teams haven't met at Comiskey Park since 1998, when they split a pair of games.

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