Crazzzzzy: White Sox finally top Astros 7-5

Tuesday's game was the longest (5 hours, 41 minutes) in Series history.
HOUSTON (AP) -- Another late night -- really late this time. Try the wee hours way past midnight.
Another unlikely homer at the end, too.
And when it was finally over, after 5 hours and 41 minutes, the Chicago White Sox had won the longest game in World Series history and were on the cusp of quite a celebration.
Blum's homer difference
Geoff Blum broke through with a tiebreaking homer in the 14th inning and Chicago beat the Houston Astros 7-5 on Wednesday morning to move within a win of a sweep and its first title since 1917.
"All three of these games -- up and down," White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. "You think you're going to lose, you think you're going to win. It's been incredible. It's been a crazy Series."
Indeed it has -- just look who's hitting the big home runs. Chicago won Game 2 on a ninth-inning shot by Scott Podsednik, who didn't have a homer the entire regular season.
Then it was Blum, a backup infielder and former Astro who waited on the bench all night before entering as part of a double switch in the 13th inning.
"It's the stuff dreams are made of," he said.
Before Blum's big hit, no one could break through in the 10th, 11th, 12th or 13th. Not the White Sox, who waited 46 years to get back to the World Series. Not the Astros, who've never been here before.
Long after Chicago overcame a 4-0 deficit with five runs in the fifth against Roy Oswalt and Jason Lane hit a tying double for Houston in the eighth off Dustin Hermanson, Blum batted for the first time in a World Series with two outs in the 14th and faced Ezequiel Astacio, Houston's seventh pitcher.
Fans remain to end
With nearly all the fans remaining from the original crowd of 42,848 in Minute Maid Park, Blum sent a 2-0 pitch down the right-field line, and the ball sailed over the wall.
The White Sox acquired Blum from San Diego on July 31, right before the trade deadline. A starter with Houston in 2002-03, he's been mostly a backup since.
Astacio allowed Chicago to load the bases on two infield singles and a walk, then forced in a run by walking Chris Widger on a 3-2 pitch.
Houston put runners at the corners in the bottom half against winner Damaso Marte. Mark Buehrle, who pitched seven innings in Game 2 on Sunday night, came in as Chicago's ninth pitcher and the 17th of the game, both Series records.
Adam Everett then popped to shortstop for the final out at 1:20 a.m. local time. The previous longest Series game was 4:51, when the Yankees beat the Mets in 12 innings in Game 1 in 2000. This matched the longest by innings, a Babe Ruth complete game for the Boston Red Sox against Brooklyn in 1916.
CHICAGOHOUSTON
abrhbiabrhbi
Pdsdnk lf8120Biggio 2b6221
Iguchi 2b7121Astacio p0000
Marte p0000WRdgz p0000
Buehrle p0000Tveras cf6000
Dye rf7121Brkmn lf5021
Knerko 1b4010Ensbrg 3b6111
Przyns c3012Lamb 1b3000
OHrndz p0000Brntlett lf0000
LVzcno p0000Lidge p0000
TPerez ph1000OPlmro lf1000
Jenks p0000Lane rf6122
Blum 2b1111Asmus c6000
Rwand cf6110AEvrtt ss5110
Crede 3b5121Oswalt p1000
Uribe ss6110Sprger p0000
Grland p3000Bgwell ph1000
CEvrtt ph1010Wheelr p0000
WHarrs pr0000Gallo p0000
Politte p0000Burke lf1000
Cotts p0000Qualls p0000
Hrmns p0000JVzcno 2b0000
Widger c1001
Totals537147Totals47585
Chicago00005000000002--7
Houston10210001000000--5
E--OHernandez (1), Uribe 2 (2), Ensberg (1). DP--Chicago 2, Houston 4. LOB--Chicago 15, Houston 15. 2B--Konerko (1), Pierzynski (1), Biggio (1), Lane (1). HR--Blum (1), Crede (2), Lane (1). SB--Podsednik (2), WHarris (1), Burke (2). CS--AEverett (1). S--AEverett, Oswalt.
IPHRERBBSO
Chicago
Garland774224
Politte2-301111
Cotts000010
Hermanson1-310001
OHernandez100042
LVizcaino100010
Jenks200013
Marte W,1-01 2-300023
Buehrle S,1 1-300000
Houston
Oswalt685553
Springer100001
Wheeler1 1-310000
Gallo1-300000
Lidge1 1-300003
Qualls310023
Astacio L,0-1 2-342220
WRodriguez1-300001
Cotts pitched to 1 batter in the 8th, OHernandez pitched to 1 batter in the 10th, Oswalt pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP--by Jenks (Taveras), by Wheeler (Konerko), by Oswalt (Crede). Umpires--Home, Jerry Layne; First, Derryl Cousins; Second, Gary Cederstrom; Third, Angel Hernandez; Left, Joe West; Right, Jeff Nelson. T--5:41. A--42,848.