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CHICAGO (AP) -- Magglio Ordonez became a starter two years ago,
moved to the cleanup spot for the Chicago White Sox last season and
emerged as one of the American League's most consistent hitters
this year.
"I feel comfortable. Maybe it's that I have more experience. I
played a lot of ball in Venezuela and five years in the minor
leagues, and when I came to the big leagues I was ready. I'm
relaxed," Ordonez said Sunday after one of his best games.
|  | | Magglio Ordonez connects for a sixth-inning grand slam on Sunday. |
Ordonez had a grand slam, a solo homer and a career-high six
RBI, leading the White Sox over the Milwaukee Brewers 11-5.
"He's a guy who's grown rapidly right before our very eyes,"
White Sox manager Jerry Manuel said.
"Maggs speaks for himself," said Chicago's James Baldwin, who
got his 12th victory Sunday. "He is coming out and attacking
pitches. It shows not only for him but the whole club. Anytime, you
have one guy doing that and you have the rest of the guys falling
in, it makes things easier."
Ordonez, twice an All-Star in three full major league seasons,
hit his third career slam off Juan Acevedo for a 9-3 lead in the
sixth following singles by Mark Johnson and Ray Durham, and a walk
to Frank Thomas.
Ordonez added a solo homer off David Weathers in the eighth,
raising his season total to 23 with his fourth multihomer game, his
second this season. He also has 80 RBI, five behind Thomas.
"It's exciting," the soft-spoken Ordonez said. "You don't
have this kind of game every day, so when you have one, you have to
enjoy it and have fun."
Baldwin (12-4), the winner in Tuesday's All-Star Game, struck
out a career-high 11 and allowed seven hits in eight innings,
including three homers. His 12 victories matched his 1999 total,
one shy of his career high, set in 1998.
"I wasn't trying to strike everybody out, just trying to make
them put the ball in play. The strikeouts seemed to happen," said
Baldwin, who just rejoined the team Saturday. He 'd gone home to
North Carolina for three days after the All-Star Game to be with
his wife as she delivered their second child.
Thomas, who had six RBI Saturday night against the Cardinals,
hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the fourth off former teammate
John Snyder (3-4) for a 5-3 lead.
Snyder was 9-12 with the White Sox last season after starting
6-1. He had his season ended by elbow surgery in September and was
traded to the Brewers along with Jaime Navarro for Cal Eldred and
Jose Valentin in the offseason.
" I was overthrowing everything and trying to throw the ball
through the wall," said Snyder, who gave up three runs in the
first and lasted just four innings. "That's the way I am usually
in the first inning, but this was a little overboard, being my old
team and all that. They did what they had to do. I made some bad
pitches and they hit them."
Charlie Hayes hit a two-run homer off Baldwin in the first but
the White Sox went ahead 3-2 in the bottom half on Ordonez's RBI
single and Paul Konerko's two-run double.
Tyler Houston's homer tied the game in the second. Geoff Jenkins
hit his 14th homer in the eighth.
Game
notes
Ordonez also homered twice July 2 against Boston. ...
Baldwin is 4-3 at home, 8-1 on the road. ... White Sox trainer Herm
Schneider said Eldred's elbow improved Sunday and he will throw in
the bullpen Monday. Eldred left Friday night's game against St.
Louis in the fifth when he experienced pain in the elbow. ...
Houston matched his career high of 10 homers, set last season, when
he hit nine for the Cubs and one for the Indians. ... The Brewers
played a Saturday night game in Kansas City and didn't arrive at
their Chicago hotel until around 2 a.m. ... Baldwin has given up 24
homers, including six in his last two starts. That doesn't count
one by Atlanta's Chipper Jones in the All-Star Game.
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