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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Chicago White Sox manager Jerry Manuel
called it one of his team's biggest hits of the season.
Mark Johnson said it was the biggest of his career.
And both acknowledged had the White Sox been at full strength,
Johnson probably wouldn't have had the opportunity.
|  | | Mark Johnson only was playing Sunday because the White Sox were short on catchers after trading Brooke Fordyce, but Johnson delivered this two-out, two-run double in the ninth. |
Johnson's two-out, two-run double in the ninth inning tied the
game, and Jeff Abbott and Carlos Lee hit two-run singles in the
10th Sunday night as the White Sox rallied for an 11-7 victory over
the Anaheim Angels.
The White Sox scored two runs in the eighth, three in the ninth
and four in the 10th in winning for just the fourth time in 11
games.
"I think this win is kind of the biggest of the year for me
personally," Lee said. "We've been doing this the whole year, we
never give up. Every day, it's a different hitter."
In this game, it was Johnson, Abbott and Lee.
Because of Saturday night's trade that sent catcher Brook Fordyce
and three minor leaguers to Baltimore for catcher Charles Johnson
and designated hitter Harold Baines, Johnson was the only catcher
the White Sox had available.
"It was a good thing we didn't have anybody extra here, we
probably would have pinch-hit for him," Manuel said.
"No, I probably wouldn't have (batted), it's happened several
times this year," Johnson said. "I finally got a chance to do
something and I did."
After Johnson's double tied it, the White Sox took a 7-6 lead
off Angels closer Troy Percival on Ray Durham's RBI double.
Durham's hit was his first in six at-bats, and just Chicago's
third in 17 at-bats with runners in scoring position.
Anaheim's Garret Anderson hit a sacrifice fly off Keith Foulke
with one out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to tie
the game 7-7. Troy Glaus then lined to third, sending the game into
extra innings.
The blown save was the eighth for Percival, who preserved 6-5
Anaheim victories the previous two days for his 24th and 25th
saves.
"It was just a fastball," Johnson said. "I figured he'd throw
me a fastball, I'm only hitting .220. It was something I could
hit."
Percival said he entered the game knowing he couldn't throw his
off-speed pitches for strikes.
"I started throwing a fastball away, which is the way I usually
approach them, then I come back in," he said. "But this time, I
stayed away because I knew I didn't have a good enough fastball to
come in on them. This team thrives on hitting the outside pitch."
Angels manager Mike Scioscia said Percival shouldn't have been a
factor in the game.
"This is a game we had control of for seven innings and let
slip away, which is uncharacteristic of us," Scioscia said.
The White Sox trailed 6-2 entering the eighth.
Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordonez opened the 10th with singles
off Al Levine (2-4), the fifth Angels pitcher, and Herbert Perry
sacrificed but reached on a fielder's choice to load the bases with
nobody out.
Abbott and Lee followed with their hits to give the White Sox a
four-run lead and knock out Levine.
Foulke (2-0), the fifth Chicago pitcher, got the final five outs
for the victory.
The Angels took a 6-2 lead by scoring three runs in the seventh
on pinch-hitter Orlando Palmeiro's suicide squeeze bunt and a
two-out, two-run triple by Tim Salmon.
The White Sox scored two unearned runs in the eighth on a
two-out error by third baseman Glaus, the fourth of five Anaheim
miscues, and a check-swing double by Thomas.
Mo Vaughn, mired in a 1-for-20 slump, blooped a two-out, RBI
double off Jim Parque in the fifth to give the Angels a 3-2 lead.
Jose Valentin hit a solo homer in the first off Seth Etherton,
his 17th, and Chris Singleton added an RBI double in the second to
make it 2-0.
Bengie Molina's sacrifice fly in Anaheim's half of the second
and a solo homer by Benji Gil in the third, his second in two days
and fifth of the season, tied the game 2-2.
Parque allowed eight hits and five earned runs in 6 1/3 innings.
Etherton gave up nine hits and two runs in 6 2-3 innings.
Before the game, the Angels acquired outfielder Ron Gant from
the Philadelphia Phillies for pitcher Kent Bottenfield, the winner
in Anaheim's victory Saturday.
Game notes
Etherton and Parque, opposing each other in the big leagues
for the first time, were crosstown rivals in college. Etherton
(USC) beat Parque (UCLA) in their two head-to-head meetings. Glaus,
then UCLA's third baseman, homered in both games. ... Darin Erstad,
who has a big league-leading 170 hits and a .372 batting average,
hit a first-inning single to snap an 0-for-10 dry spell. He also
singled in the fifth and seventh innings, giving 56 multiple-hit
games _ tops in the majors. ... Anaheim starters combined for a
10.07 ERA in the team's previous eight games, allowing 44 runs on
75 hits in 39 1-3 innings. ... Johnson and Baines are expected to
be in uniform Tuesday night when the White Sox play at Texas.
Chicago is idle Monday. ... Gant is expected to report to the
Angels in time for Monday night's game against Detroit.
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ALSO SEE
Baseball Scoreboard
Chi. White Sox Clubhouse
Anaheim Clubhouse
Angels acquire bat for Bottenfield, get Phillies' Gant
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