Albers does it all to spur Sox big series win

NEW YORK — The finish from a 2-1 White Sox victory over the Mets in 13 innings Wednesday at Citi Field had to be seen to truly be believed. Even Matt Albers, who played an integral role in every angle of the deciding 13th-inning sequence, didn’t seem to be fully convinced of what happened as he explained it to a group of media members standing around his locker.

“Reliever hits a double and then scores and then pitches two innings,” Albers said. “That’s not going to happen every day. It’s a good way to get a win.”

Good way? Absolutely, especially for a White Sox team ending a stretch of six straight series defeats.

Shocking, startling way? That’s a little more like it. In fact, before Albers, the last American League reliever to score a game-winning run was the Orioles’ Danys Baez in 2009, according to Elias.

Down to just one position player in catcher Dioner Navarro, manager Robin Ventura sent Albers to hit leading off the 13th against Mets reliever Logan Verrett. Albers took a couple of pitches without moving his bat from his shoulders, but then laced pitch No. 6, a 91-mph fastball, into left-center for a double and the first extra-base hit …

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