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Fields homers twice as Sox beat Seattle 5-3
CHICAGO — Rookie Josh Fields hit two homers, Jermaine Dye went deep and Juan Uribe doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh as the Chicago White Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 5-3 on Friday night. Tied at 3, the Mariners failed to capitalize after loading the bases with one out in the seventh and paid for it in the bottom half. Dye led off with a single and came around on Uribe’s double off the wall in left, making it 4-3. Uribe advanced to third on the throw home and scored with two out on Darin Erstad’s triple to shallow center, the ball rolling by a diving Ichiro Suzuki. That made a winner of Javier Vazquez (10-6), who allowed three runs and nine hits in seven innings. He allowed one intentional walk while striking out three and improved to 7-1 in his last 10 starts. Bobby Jenks pitched the ninth for his 33rd save in 38 chances. He has retired 38 straight batters, trying David Wells’ American League record set in 1998 with the New York Yankees. It’s the fourth-longest streak in major league history. The Mariners had won nine of 12 and pounded out 49 hits while outscoring Baltimore 31-15 in a three-game sweep, but Jarrod Washburn (8-9) suffered his second straight loss and third in six starts. He has not won since pitching eight shutout innings at Kansas City July 4. He allowed seven hits and five runs in 6 2-3 innings, striking out six and walking two. Dye homered in the second, and Fields went deep in the third and sixth — his first multi-homer game. Seattle’s Kenji Johjima and Raul Ibanez hit solo shots on this muggy 79-degree night. But the Mariners could not come through with the big hit in the seventh. Jose Vidro sent a bouncer to Fields, and the third baseman fired home to force Johjima. Jose Guillen then grounded into a force to end the threat. Seattle was leading 3-2 when Fields led off the sixth with his second homer of the game and 11th of the season on a drive to center. Suzuki planted his left foot on the top of the fence in a vain, but spectacular, attempt to rob him and maybe atone for a strange play on the bases in the fifth. Seattle had just taken a 3-2 lead on Vidro’s sacrifice fly with runners on first and third when Guillen sent a roller toward short. Uribe was winding to throw to first when he noticed Suzuki had rounded second. He stopped, flipped to third and Fields tagged out Suzuki in a rundown. Suzuki was 1-for-3 after getting three hits in each of his previous three games. Ibanez had three hits. Dye and Fields had two hits for Chicago. Scott Podsednik, whose time with the White Sox may be winding down, was 1-for-2. The Chicago Tribune, citing a major league source, reported on its Web site that the Cubs had put in a claim for him off waivers. The White Sox had two business days to work out a trade with the Cubs, simply let him go to the North Side team or pull him off waivers. Notes: Mariners RF Guillen was back in the lineup after being hit on his right hand by a pitch and robbed Jim Thome of an extra-base hit in the first with a leaping catch against the wall. ... Ibanez robbed Podsednik with a sliding catch in shallow left in the seventh. E-mail this story | Print this story | Search archives | RSS Show comments |  Hide comments | Hide comments on all stories |
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