"After striking out four times Sunday to increase his season total to 100 that dipped his batting average to .173, embattled Chicago White Sox slugger Adam Dunn vows to keep his approach simple and not get too analytical.

"I'm not giving up, I promise you," Dunn said Tuesday. "There's still a lot of baseball left. We put ourselves in position where guys who have been struggling have to step it up.

"I just need to go back to basics and quit thinking. It's not me. I'm not a thinker. I have to quit thinking. That's not me. I'm not a thinker. Have to see it, hit the (darn) thing and not make it so complicated."

Dunn said he has spoken to Dr. Jeffrey Fishbein, a sports psychologist hired by the Sox prior to this season.

"It works for different people," Dunn said. "I don't know if it works for me, but I have talked with him and I even golfed with him. I like him. He's actually real good (in golf), so that added more stress to my life golfing with him."

Manager Ozzie Guillen said that Dunn, who can't perform his designated hitter duties the next six games because the Sox are playing interleague games in National League parks, will start Thursday either in the outifeld or at first base."