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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Ray Durham, Chicago's leadoff hitter and a
catalyst all season for the AL Central leaders, collapsed on the
field Friday night, the scariest moment in a memorable season for
the White Sox.
|  | | Ray Durham collapsed Friday but apparently will be OK. The White Sox second baseman bruised his ribs and was woozy after a head-first home plate collision with
Twins catcher A.J. Pierzynski. |
Durham, who bruised his ribs in a home-plate collision shortly
before falling face first to the ground in the third inning,
returned to the Metrodome after Chicago's 5-4 win over the
Minnesota Twins.
"I'm all right now, I'm just a little sore," said Durham,
sitting up on a trainer's table. "All that is sore is my ribs.
Everything else is OK."
Durham was conscious as he was carted off and taken to a
hospital. White Sox trainer Herm Schneider said Durham underwent
X-rays and a CT scan.
"He's fine. They couldn't find anything wrong with him," White
Sox manager Jerry Manuel said. "He just happened to get dizzy.
They did everything they could to check him out."
In the top of the third, Durham slid head-first into the plate
to score a run. Back on the bench, he rubbed his midsection.
In the bottom half of the inning, Durham had taken warmups at
second base -- he had just thrown a ball over first baseman Paul
Konerko's head -- when he took a few steps toward the White Sox
dugout on the first-base side.
Durham then fell to the artificial turf.
"I was running off the field and I just felt like I had heavy
legs. It's happened before, but it was a long time ago," Durham
said. "For a moment there, I was kind of out of it."
Schneider spoke with Durham's wife, mother and agent from the
hospital.
"He assured them that it looks like Ray is going to be fine,"
agent Ed Setlick said.
The White Sox cut their magic number for winning the division to
three on Konerko's eighth-inning homer.
Everyone at the ballpark, though, was thinking about Durham.
"Obviously, you're very concerned. When I went out there, he
was still kind of dazed," Manuel said.
Durham was rolled over on his back, and after several minutes of
attention from Schneider and Twins team physician Dr. Tom Jetzer,
Durham was able to sit up.
Manuel and several teammates surrounded Durham while he was down
and DH Frank Thomas came out of the dugout to be with his fallen
teammate.
"It was scary, but he's OK. I saw a big hole in his shirt. The
blow at the plate really dazed him. Ray's tough as nails and he got
up and went back to the dugout, but he was out of it," Thomas
said.
After Durham was lifted onto a cart and taken off the field,
Schneider wrapped his arm around Durham's shoulder to cushion his
head. Durham was taken by ambulance from the Metrodome to a
hospital a few blocks away.
In the top of the third, Durham had stopped at third on Thomas'
single to left, but then went home when left fielder Jacque Jones'
throw sailed over the heads of both catcher A.J. Pierzynski and
Twins starter Brad Radke.
Radke picked the ball after it rebounded and Durham slid into
Pierzynski to beat Radke's throw for a run that tied it at 2.
"I think the impact at home plate had something to do with it.
He caught the guy with his ribs. He said it was sore there,"
Manuel said.
Konerko hit his 20th homer, a solo shot in the eighth off Bob
Wells (0-7), to put the White Sox ahead to stay at 5-4.
Lorenzo Barcelo (4-2) got the victory in relief. Keith Foulke
got his 32nd save.
Herbert Perry hit a two-run homer in the sixth to put Chicago
ahead 4-3 before Matt Lawton hit a solo shot to tie it in the
seventh off Mark Buehrle.
Pierzynski hit a two-out RBI single to put the Twins ahead 3-2
in the fourth.
Game notes
The White Sox have scored 939 runs. The 1931 New York
Yankees hold the major-league record with 1,067. ... The Twins
announced they had signed a two-year player development contract
with the Edmonton Trappers of the Pacific Coast League to be their
Triple-A affiliate.
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