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  Sunday, Jul. 16 2:05pm ET
Ordonez has grand day at the plate
 
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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
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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