Julio Cruz`s two-run single with two out in the 11th broke a 4-4 tie and lifted the White Sox to a 6-5 victory Monday over the Boston Red Sox.
Ozzie Guillen led off the 11th with a walk off Bob Stanley (0-1), and Greg Walker followed with a single off Stanley`s glove. After Daryl Boston struck out, Walker went to second as Rudy Law bounced out, and Cruz then singled to left to score both runners.
Boston cut the lead to 6-5 in the bottom of the 11th when Glenn Hoffman doubled, took third on an infield out and scored on a passed ball by Carlton Fisk.
But Al Jones (1-0) retired the next three batters to notch the victory. He allowed one hit over the final 2 1/3 innings.
Jerry Hairston`s club-record 51st pinch hit gave the Sox a 4-3 lead in the eighth.
Bob James, who gave up the hit in the seventh inning in relief of Tom Seaver to tie the score 3-3, permitted a tying run in the ninth inning. Pinch- hitter Rick Miller started off with a double and, after two were out, Jim Rice scored him with a single up the middle.
Lefty Juan Agosto replaced James and faced one batter–walking Mike Easler. Jones took over at that point and moved the game to extra innings by having Tony Armas popout.
James got Marty Barrett on a foul popout in the eighth with runners at first and third to get out of the inning. Barrett fouled off six pitches in a row before being retired.
Hairston`s single, breaking a pinch-hit tie with Smokey Burgess, followed singles by Scott Fletcher and Harold Baines. Starter Bruce Hurst left after those hits, and Stanley faced Hairston.
Fisk picked up Monday morning where he left off Sunday afternoon, when he hit a three-run homer and collected four RBIs in the White Sox`s 11-6 victory. In this Patriot`s Day game, scheduled to end early so the fans could catch the finish of the Boston Marathon, Fisk doubled twice and had one RBI and one run scored.
Fisk`s extra-base hits glanced off the Green Monster in left field. The second one was in the sixth inning with two out and brought in Harold Baines from third to increase Chicago`s lead to 3-1.
Seaver`s advantage was down to 3-2 after the sixth because Rice homered to left. The homer was Rice`s second of the year.
The tying run immediately reached first base when Walker received an error on a throw Seaver couldn`t glove as it was tossed a little behind him. But Easler, safe on the play, was quickly erased on a double-play bouncer hit by Armas.
The Red Sox did even the score 3-3 come the seventh. After two were out, Jackie Gutierrez hit a single to right that caromed off the stands. In an attempt to field it with his glove. Baines was unable to pick it up smoothly. Gutierrez hurried for second base and Baines received an error.
Manager Tony LaRussa removed Seaver at this point, perhaps because Wade Boggs had singled off him twice already. But Boggs also singled against James to score Gutierrez. James gave him a curve on a 2-2 pitch and Boggs lined it to left.
Baines singled in the third inning off Hurst`s glove and reached third base when catcher Rich Gedman was charged with a passed ball.
The wind may have helped that second double. Fisk lofted it high, and Rice set up for the catch at first as if it wouldn`t be a problem.
In the second inning, Fisk doubled with none out and positioned runners at second and third. Tom Paciorek`s single opened the inning.
Left-hander Hurst almost danced out of jeopardy. He flashed a called third strike past Ron Kittle on the inside corner, and Walker struck out swinging.
Luis Salazar, who had had only one hit up to now in 11 at-bats, didn`t let the scoring chance slip away. He earned his first RBIs of the season when he pulled a single to left field to forge a 2-0 lead.
Salazar went to second on the throw home against Fisk and took third after Hurst uncorked a wild pitch. A perfect shot for Tim Hulett, who made his first start of the year, to get himself on the scoreboard. But Hulett flied out.
Seaver gave up three singles in the first inning and escaped without allowing a run. Right-fielder Dwight Evans was the reason for that. He hit into a double play after Wade Boggs led off with a single.
Rice and Easler followed with singles, but Armas broke his bat on a fly out to center.
Boggs` second single off Seaver came in the fifth inning and scored Gedman with the Red Sox`s first run. Gedman bounced a double off the wall in center leading off. Seaver saved his shutout for a while by getting a pair of ground-outs that moved Gedman as far as third.
