White Sox edge Blue Jays 4-3 in 10th inning

CHICAGO (AP) -- Joe Crede hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning, lifting the Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday in the opener of a doubleheader.
Magglio Ordonez singled in the 10th and after Frank Thomas walked, Ross Gload sacrificed. Justin Speier (1-3) then walked Paul Konerko intentionally to load the bases before Crede lifted a fly to right fielder Howie Clark.
Clark made a strong throw to the plate, but Ordonez slid around catcher Kevin Cash as the White Sox won for the sixth time in eight games.
Japanese saves leader Shingo Takatsu (1-0) got his first major league win with a scoreless top of the 10th.
Fourth straight loss
The Blue Jays lost their fourth straight game -- their relievers are 0-4 in the skid -- and fell to 7-16, which ties the franchise's worst start through 23 games.
Toronto tied the game at 3 in the top of the eighth when Carlos Delgado homered off reliever Damaso Marte.
Crede's two-run homer in the fifth gave the White Sox a one-run lead and Mark Buehrle appeared on his way to a win for the first time since April 10.
Buehrle allowed just six hits and two runs with a season-high eight strikeouts in 6 2-3 innings. After Cliff Politte got the final out of the seventh and the first one in the eighth, Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen brought in the left-handed Marte to face Delgado and the strategy backfired.
The White Sox threatened in the eighth and ninth, but Terry Adams escaped the jams both times.
Reigning AL Cy Young winner Roy Halladay gave up only four hits and three runs in seven strong innings.
Delgado earlier extended his hitting streak to nine games with a two-out RBI single in the fifth to give Toronto a 2-1 lead.
Chicago's Timo Perez doubled to lead off the bottom of the third and the White Sox used some NL-like small ball to get him home. Sandy Alomar Jr. bunted him to third and Perez scored on a squeeze bunt by Willie Harris, tying the game at 1-1.
Cash singled with two outs in the second and scored when Orlando Hudson doubled to left center, extending his hitting streak to seven games.
Chicago's Juan Uribe went 3-for-5 and has 11 hits in his last 16 at-bats.
TORONTOCHICAGO
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Jhnson rf4000WHarrs 2b2001
HClark rf1000Uribe ss5030
Wdwrd ss4110MOrdz rf4110
VWells cf5010Thmas dh3000
CDlgdo 1b3122Gload lf4000
JPhlps dh4010Knerko 1b2100
Hinske 3b4010Crede 3b4123
Cash c4110TPerez cf3110
OHudsn 2b4011SAlmr c3000
Berg lf3000
Ctlnotto lf1000
Totals37383Totals30474
Toronto0100100100--3
Chicago0010200001--4
Two outs when winning run scored.
DP--Toronto 1, Chicago 1. LOB--Toronto 6, Chicago 10. 2B--OHudson (7), Uribe (4), TPerez (1). 3B--Woodward (3). HR--CDelgado (5), Crede (4). S--WHarris, Gload, TPerez, SAlomar. SF--Crede.
IPHRERBBSO
Toronto
Halladay743343
Ligtenberg1-310010
Adams1 2-310011
Speier L,1-3 2-311120
Chicago
Buehrle6 2-362218
Politte2-300001
Marte1 2-321100
Takatsu W,1-0100001
HBP--by Buehrle (Woodward). Umpires--Home, Andy Fletcher; First, Mike Fichter; Second, Jim Reynolds; Third, Gary Cederstrom. T--2:45.
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