BOSTON — Jose Abreu doubled home two runs off Boston closer Craig Kimbrel with two outs in the top of the 10th inning after Chicago escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the ninth, lifting the White Sox to a 3-1 win over the Red Sox on Monday night.
Chicago snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the eighth time in 26 games. Boston has lost five of eight.
Tuesday's game
who: White Sox (Sale 11-2) at Red Sox (Buchholz 3-6)
when: 7:10 p.m.
Television: NESN
Zach Duke (2-0) wriggled out of the ninth to get the win. David Robertson worked the 10th for his 17th save.
Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright pitched nine innings, giving up only an unearned run and five hits. He struck out six and walked three while lowering his AL-best ERA to 2.01.
Abreu doubled to right-center off Kimbrel (0-3) after Avisail Garcia walked and J.B. Shuck singled.
In the ninth, the Red Sox loaded the bases on three walks by Zach Putnam. Duke relieved and struck out pinch-hitter Dustin Pedroia before Christian Vazquez bounced to a fifth infielder placed in front of second base. Tyler Saladino threw home for a force, and then Duke fanned pinch-hitter Ryan LaMarre to end the threat.
White Sox starter Miguel Gonzalez gave up one run and four hits. He was lifted after giving up the tying hit with two outs in the seventh.
Gonzalez entered 6-1 with a 3.27 ERA against the Red Sox and was 4-0 against them in five starts at Fenway Park.
He mostly mixed a sharp-breaking slider with a mid-90s (mph) fastball, keeping Boston off stride and inducing a number of weak swings. The highest-scoring team in the majors was getting shut out until Vazquez’s broken-bat single dropped into center, tying it at 1.
Gonzalez was a contrast to Wright, who had his usual array of knucklers moving, but mixed in occasional curveballs — one at 64 mph — and fastballs in the mid-to-upper 80s (mph).
Coming off a weekend when they were swept in three games at Cleveland and scored just six total runs, the White Sox grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second. Brett Lawrie had a one-out double, advanced on a flyout and scored on Vazquez’s passed ball.
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