THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014
PAGE 7B
MLB
White Sox top Twins 7-6 on balk,2 wild pitches
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CHICAGO — Down 0-2 in the count in the 11th inning. infielder Leury Garcia did something surprising: He counted for a base hit.
What happened next was even more unexpected.
Chicago White Sox's Leury Garcia (28) celebrates with teammates after scoring to defeaft the Minnesota Twins in the eleventh inning on Wednesday in Chicago. The White Sox won 7-6.
Garcia scored on a balk and a pair of wild pitches by Samuel Deduno, giving Chicago White Sox a 7-6 win over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Before a crowd of just 10,625, Chicago came back from a 6-4 deficit in the ninth on Garcia's run-scoring single off Glen Perkins and Adam Eaton's RBI grounder.
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Garcia said he made the call on his own to try and bunt even though the count was against him.
"You have to work on it," Garcia said. "I've been working and that was the perfect time to do it, and I do it. It was perfect."
The speedy Garcia bunted up the third-base line, leading off the 11th and took second when, with Eaton at the plate, Deduno (0-1) never came to a set position and balked.
Eaton struck out, Deduno bounced an outside pitch that hit off Suzuki's glove as Garcia advanced, and Marcus Semien took a called third strike.
After an intentional walk to Jose Abreu, Deduno threw away outside on a 3-2 to pitch to Adam Dunn, and the ball hit off Suzuki's glove as Garcia came home.
for the win.
Ronald Belisario (1-0)
pitched 1 1-3 hitless innings
"You get momentum from that," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "There are ways to hit a home run and win a game, and there's another way to manufacture it and come back. By coming back and then you win later, I don't know how many times we did that last year, not many. You end up doing something that feels new and feels fresh for these guys."
Dunn's solo homer in the eighth off Jared Burton pulled the White Sox to 6-5, but Kurt Suzuki hit a run-scoring double in the ninth against Daniel Wenn for a two-run cushion.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said the long delay forced him to pull starting pitcher Kevin Correia earlier than he wanted.
The game was delayed during the top of the seventh after Eaton appeared to catch Oswaldo Arcia's fly ball to center and then dropped it when he went to grab the ball from his glove. The play was ruled a catch, but the Twins challenged the call and it was overturned by a replay umpire in New York.
"The length of it couldn't be helped from what I heard but it took too long for everybody involved," Gardenhire said.
White Sox left-hander Felipe Paulino, back from elbow and shoulder surgery, made his first start since June 6, 2012, against Minnesota as a member of the Kansas City Royals. He allowed two runs
hits in 5 1-3 innings with six strikeouts and two walks. Paulino labored at times and threw 109 pitches.
— one earned — and seven
Twins starter Kevin Correia gave up three runs — two earned — and five hits in six
innings with five strikeouts and a walked.
"It wasn't really a situation where I couldn't go back out there," Correia said. "It was 35 degrees, and I don't know how long that inning was
taking already. But it pretty much came down to that review. Without that review, I definitely think I'm going back out there."
a 5-3 lead with a three-run seventh. Alexei Ramirez had a two-run double for the White Sox.
Trevor Plouffe had three RBIs for the Twins, who took
NBA
Miami Heat stays atop East, beat Milwaukee Bucks 96-77
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Miami Heat forward LeBron James, left, dunks against Milwaukee Bucks forward Ekpe Udoh (5) during the first half on Wednesday in Miami.
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MIAMI — LeBron James is dealing with a few aches and pains, which obviously is not the best news for the Miami Heat with two weeks left in the regular season.
Come game time, though,
nothing seems to be ailing him.
Bringing the crowd out of its seats with a pair of highlightreel dunks in the first half, then drilling a deep 3-pointer to end the third quarter, James was his typical effective self on Wednesday night. He led Miami with 17 points, and the Heat stayed atop the Eastern Conference with a wire-to-wire 96-77 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.
"If I feel like I can give something, I've got to be out there for my teammates," James said. "It's my obligation to be out there for them. I'm dealing with a few things, but for me to sit out, I have to be
dealing with a lot more."
Chris Bosh scored 15 and Mario Chalmers scored 14 for the Heat.
Ramon Sessions scored 19 points for Milwaukee, which got 14 from Jeff Adrien. 11 from Brandon Knight and 10 from John Henson. Zaza Pachulia grabbed 16 rebounds in 26 minutes for the NBAworst Bucks, who have now had 11 games this season in which they never led.
As of now, James doesn't plan on sitting out any of Miami's final eight games, and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said he probably wouldn't even think about any strategy to get him some rest for at least another week — a stance that can't come as a surprise, considering the East No. 1
The Bucks fell to 14-61 with seven games remaining and are now only one loss away from tying the franchise record for most defeats in a season.
seed is hardly secure. With the win, Miami (52-22, .703) remained percentage points ahead of Indiana (53-23, .697) in the East race.
The Pacers defeated Detroit 101-94 earlier Wednesday.
"I'm dealing with a few things, but for me to sit out, I have to be dealing with a lot more."
LEBRON JAMES Miami Heat
"It's tempting to start to look ahead. We're only two weeks away," Spoelstra said. "But there's so much basketball left in these two weeks. And it is very compelling at this time of year, and we are trying to accomplish some things. So as guys start to get back into the lineup we want to take a step forward as a group. And there's a process to that."
At some point, that process will presumably include getting Dwyane Wade, Ray Allen and Greg Oden back into the lineup. Wade missed his 23rd game of the season, his fourth straight with a hamstring problem. The Heat are 11-1 in the last 12 games that Wade has missed.
Allen has been sidelined by a flu bug that struck his entire family, though he's nearing a return. Oden has been sidelined by back spasms, with Spoelstra saying he's also close to getting back.
Milwaukee opened the fourth quarter with six straight points, cutting Miami's lead to 14 and getting the Heat to call time-out.
Whatever doubt existed at that point, if any, didn't last long.
Norris Cole snapped Miami's scoreless drought with a beathe-shot-clock 3-pointer as he was leaning to his right with 8:35 left.
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