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Power surge Tigers, White Sox combine for record-tying 12 homersPosted: Wednesday July 03, 2002 12:43 AMUpdated: Wednesday July 03, 2002 1:12 AM
CHICAGO (AP) -- Comiskey Park proved to be the friendly confines in Chicago for at least one day. Magglio Ordonez and Sandy Alomar each homered twice as the White Sox and Tigers combined for a major league-record tying 12 home runs in Chicago's 17-9 victory over Detroit on Tuesday night. Both teams hit six home runs in the game as they tied the record they set together on May 28, 1995 in Detroit. Kenny Lofton and Jose Valentin also homered for the White Sox, who have scored 77 runs in winning seven of nine games against the Tigers this season. "If you made good contact in the air the ball was probably going to go out," Alomar said. Dmitri Young homered twice for Detroit. Robert Fick, George Lombard, Wendell Magee and Damion Easley also homered. "It was like Colorado out there," Young said. "Everybody put it way in the air. We lost, but it was still uplifting to see our bats like that." Todd Ritchie (5-5) allowed five runs and seven hits in seven innings to win for the first time in June 11. Ordonez, who lost out in his bid to become the AL's 30th All-Star earlier in the day, hit a solo homer in the first inning against Adam Bernero (2-4) and a grand slam off Jose Paniagua in Chicago's seven-run eighth inning. "You still never know. I have known guys to be last minute additions," White Sox manager Jerry Manuel. "The thing you have to do is keep drawing the attention of people in major league baseball, keep putting up numbers and that's kind of what Magglio (Ordonez) is doing." Ordonez has 15 homers this season and nine career multihomer games. Alomar hit a pair of solo shots for his third career multihomer game. Trailing 4-3, the White Sox scored four runs off Bernero in the fourth inning to take the lead for good. With two outs and nobody on, Alomar hit a solo homer to tie the game. Royce Clayton followed with a single to left and Lofton beat out a bunt to give the White Sox runners at first and second. Ray Durham then hit a two-run double. The Tigers appeared to have Durham picked off at second, but with Durham breaking to third on the pickoff attempt, Easley threw the ball away and Durham scored to make it 7-4. Alomar homered again in the sixth, off Jose Lima, to give his six homers on the season. Durham walked in a run to set up Ordonez with the bases loaded. Ordonez then hit his slam to make it 15-5. Alomar added an RBI double and Josh Rowand had a run-scoring groundout in the inning. The Tigers hit three home runs in the ninth against Bobby Howry but still fell short. Young hit his second solo homer in the ninth inning, giving him three career multihomer games Magee also hit a solo shot in the inning and Easley had a two-run blast. Ritchie gave up a solo home run to Young and a two-run shot to Fick to fall behind 3-0 in the first inning. "It seemed like all the balls that they got in the air had a chance," Ritchie said. "There was some really good hit balls and there was some balls that were questionable." Lofton responded with his 21st career leadoff home run. Two batters later, Ordonez hit his 14th home run of the season to make it 3-2. Valentin led off the second inning with his 11th homer. Easley doubled and scored on Young's single to give the Tigers a 4-3 lead in the third. Lombard hit his first home run since 1998 off Ritchie in the seventh inning. In the eighth, Paul Konerko got his 71st RBI of the season and Valentin drove in his second run of the night on a single to give the White a 10-5 lead. Bernero allowed seven runs -- six earned -- and eight hits in four innings.
Notes: The White Sox have won 20 of their last 24 games against the Tigers and 11 of 14 at home. ... Chicago's Frank Thomas was 0-for-5 and his batting average has dipped to .245. ... The White Sox have scored at least 10 runs in four of their last five games against Detroit.
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