(My Sportsbook) - Offseason acquisition Bartolo Colon tries to make it two quality starts in a row tonight when the Chicago White Sox visit Tropicana Field for game two of a four-game series against the homestanding Tampa Bay Rays.

The series is a rematch of last fall's American League Division Series, in which the Rays dumped the White Sox in four games en route to a league pennant and a berth in the World Series.

Colon, a 35-year-old right-hander from the Dominican Republic, came to the White Sox a few months after the playoff loss, signing a one-year deal worth $1 million.

He spent a smidgen of 2008 with the Boston Red Sox, appearing in seven games and finishing 4-2 with a 3.92 earned run average, then had surgery to repair bone chips in his pitching elbow.

A 20-game winner with Cleveland in 2002 and again while winning a Cy Young Award with the 2005 Los Angeles Angels, Colon opened his stay with the White Sox in winning style, blanking Minnesota on three hits over six innings in Chicago's 8-0 triumph.

He last faced the Rays in 2007 and split two starts, allowing nine hits and five runs in 12 innings.

Tampa Bay goes to Opening Day starter and staff ace James Shields, who'll take the mound for a third time this season.

A double-digit winner in two straight seasons for the Rays, including a career-best 14 wins last year, the 6-foot-4, 220-pounder was roughed up for nine hits and five runs in 5 1/3 innings of a loss to Boston on April 7.

He rebounded to blank Baltimore on three hits over seven innings on April 12, walking one and striking out three.

Shields made one start against the White Sox in the 2008 regular season, allowing seven hits and a run over six innings in a no-decision. He defeated them in the aforementioned postseason series after surrendering six hits and three runs in 6 1/3 innings.

On Thursday, Jermaine Dye clubbed a two-run homer as part of a 3-for-5 effort at the plate and Bobby Jenks overcame some ninth-inning drama, as the White Sox held on to defeat Tampa Bay, 3-2.

Josh Fields had three hits, including a triple, and knocked in a valuable insurance run during Chicago's turn in the ninth that ultimately was the difference in the game.

John Danks (1-0) gave up one run on two hits with four walks and eight strikeouts to earn the win for the White Sox.

Carlos Pena hit a solo homer for the Rays, who have dropped three straight.

Jeff Niemann (0-2) served up the homer to Dye, one of nine hits Chicago mustered against the right-hander in his six innings on the hill.