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- Updated: July 21, 2016
SEATTLE — Dan Jennings stood on the mound in the 11th inning with a plan. He had thrown three straight sliders to Leonys Martin for two strikes and a foul ball. He shook off catcher Dioner Navarro. He wanted to throw another one.
“I had beaten him on a couple sliders before, and I just felt like if I put that in the dirt then he either takes it or he swings through it,” Jennings said. “Obviously I didn’t put it in the dirt.”
Martin drove the 85.8-mph slider over the right-field fence for the White Sox second walk-off loss in a three-game series against the Mariners, this time a 6-5, 11-inning defeat at Safeco Field, as the bullpen gave up a 5-2 sixth-inning …
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