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May 9--Tribune reporter
With a daunting 10-game, three-city West Coast trip awaiting the White Sox, Juan Uribe provided his teammates Thursday with clutch hitting and added spark.
Uribe hit a two-run, go-ahead homer in the fifth inning and then received a hero's welcome in the dugout after breaking up a potential inning-ending double play in the eighth that set up two insurance runs in a 6-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
Uribe gave the Sox an extra lift as they won their first series since April 18-20 at Tampa Bay.
"That's the way I like the game to be played," manager Ozzie Guillen said of Uribe's clean but hard slide that upended second baseman Brendan Harris.
"That was the play of the game."
Uribe's slide occurred three days after he failed to run from third base on a grounder in a 1-0 loss in Toronto.
"I don't want to hurt anybody, but I think it did a lot of good to stop the double play," Uribe said.
Uribe was using a different bat for his homer because teammate Mark Buehrle smashed his game bat in the dugout Wednesday night and later apologized for doing it.
"I never had seen Buehrle like that," Uribe said.
Relievers Octavio Dotel, Scott Linebrink and Bobby Jenks combined to blank the Twins over the final four innings, with Dotel striking out five in two innings.
Guillen said he might continue to use Dotel as early as the sixth to get the Sox out of jams.
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