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BOSTON (AP) -- Jeff Fassero's recent rest because of a tired arm
is paying off for the Boston Red Sox.
Fassero pitched his best game in over two months and Scott
Hatteberg hit a three-run homer as the Red Sox beat the Chicago
White Sox 8-6 Saturday.
|  | | Nomar Garciaparra, throwing out a runner here, was 2-for-4 and raised his batting average to .395 Saturday. |
"(The arm) feels great," said Fassero, who was disabled from
June 19 to July 5 for what the left-hander called a dead arm.
"It's more than halfway through the season and I don't have a 100
innings yet.
"I'm happy with the way I threw," he said. "They have a good
hitting team over there. I kept them off-balance."
Fassero (7-3), winless in his previous five starts (0-2 with a
9.35 ERA), kept the highest-scoring team in the majors scoreless
with only two hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out
five before leaving because of a cramp in his left calf before the
seventh.
"He really pitched a strong game," Boston manager Jimy
Williams said. "You're talking about a lineup over there. It was
really a strong outing that we needed, too."
The loss was just the second in eight games and 13th in 43 for
the White Sox.
"He had us guessing," White Sox shortstop Tony Graffanio said.
"He threw four pitches with great control anywhere in the count."
Troy O'Leary went 3-for-4 and drove in a run for Boston, which
has won seven of 10 games since the All-Star break.
O'Leary continued his torrid pace since coming off the DL July
3. He is hitting .453 (29-64) with four homers and 21 RBI since
being sidelined due to personal problems from a pending divorce.
Nomar Garciaparra was 2-for-4 with an RBI, raising his major
league-leading average to .395. But it was Fassero who dominated
the game.
"I had Jeff in the minors and at Montreal," said White Sox
manager Jerry Manuel, a minor league instructor and coach with the
Expos while Fassero was in the organization. "It doesn't surprise
me when he pitches like he did."
The White Sox scored three runs off reliever Rich Garces in the
seventh. Derek Lowe, who pitched the final two innings, ran into
trouble in the ninth, giving up three runs on RBI doubles by
Herbert Perry and Ray Durham, and Brook Fordyce's run-scoring
grounder.
Chicago starter Jon Garland, at 20, was making his third career
start. He coasted through the first three innings before the Red
Sox scored three runs in both the fourth and fifth.
Garland (1-2) allowed six runs -- five earned -- and seven hits in
4 1/3 innings.
Boston moved ahead 3-0 in the fourth when Hatteberg homered into
the Red Sox bullpen after O'Leary singled and Jason Varitek walked.
In the fifth, Jose Offerman tripled leading off and scored on
Carl Everett's sacrifice fly. O'Leary added an RBI single, and
Garciaparra scored on the hit when center fielder Jeff Abbott threw
the ball into the White Sox dugout for an error.
Carlos Lee had a two-run double and Abbott an RBI single,
cutting it to 6-3 in the seventh. Garciaparra's RBI double and
Varitek's run-scoring grounder made it 8-3 in the bottom half.
Boston right fielder Darren Lewis helped Fassero with a pair of
nice sliding catches. The first came off Lee's line drive, ending
the second, and the other was on Perry's liner for the final out in
the fifth.
Game notes
Durham was back in the starting lineup hitting leadoff and
playing 2B, after having Friday night off. ... Boston 2B Jeff Frye,
who left the first game of Thursday's doubleheader in Baltimore
with back spasms, worked out during batting practice, but did not
play. ... Red Sox 1B-DH Mike Stanley, on the DL with a strained
right shoulder, was eligible to come off Tuesday, but remains
inactive.
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Kansas City 8
Detroit 5
Detroit 10
Kansas City 6
(2nd game)
Oakland 10
Anaheim 3
Seattle 13
Texas 5
Baltimore 8
Toronto 2
Tampa Bay 12
NY Yankees 4
Boston 8
Chi. White Sox 6
Minnesota 10
Cleveland 6
NY Mets 4
Atlanta 0
Cincinnati 7
Arizona 3
Houston 10
St. Louis 5
Chicago Cubs 3
Milwaukee 2
San Francisco 5
Los Angeles 2
Montreal 17
Florida 7
Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 1
Colorado 9
San Diego 4
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