Times wires
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
BOSTON — Fenway is a friendly park to the Sox — the White Sox.
Chicago won its seventh straight game at the 99-year-old home of the Red Sox as Paul Konerko hit a go-ahead single in the seventh and a two-run homer in the ninth in a 7-4 victory that completed a three-game sweep Wednesday.
"Playing three games here is not the same as playing in a lot of stadiums," Konerko said after a sellout crowd watched Boston cough up a 3-0 lead after two. "There's an energy you get that you don't get other places. So that is a help if you use it right."
Gavin Floyd settled down after a three-run second. "When you give up runs early, the game can go either way," he said. "You just try to keep your focus and have faith and just go out there like it's 0-0."
Chicago's winning streak at Fenway is its longest there since it won seven in 1958-59. The White Sox have won 13 of 15 overall against Boston.
"They've been playing good," David Ortiz said. "They weren't playing that good before they got here."