CHICAGO _ The White Sox won a suspended game. One pitcher won twice. One pitcher was suspended.
A strange Saturday night spilled into an unusual Sunday afternoon at U.S. Cellular Field.
The White Sox took Saturday's suspended game, which was halted three times Saturday thanks to rain, 4-3 against the Tigers in under 20 minutes. They topped them again 5-4 on a day during which they learned they had lost an All-Star pitcher, Chris Sale, to a suspension for five days.
Closer David Robertson earned both victories, the second of which he was the first to admit he didn't deserve. He allowed three home runs in the top of the ninth inning of Sunday's regularly scheduled game, doubling his season total and allowing the Tigers to tie the score and set up the Sox's second walk-off win of the afternoon.
"Jose Quintana pitched his tail off again and I went out there and screwed it all up," said Robertson, the first Sox pitcher to be credited with two wins in one day since Tom Seaver in May 9, 1984, when the team completed a 25-inning game against the Brewers. "Three two-strike home runs is ridiculous. It's absurd that I pitched that poorly."
Quintana provided some much-needed relief to White Sox's taxed relievers by pitching 6 2/3 stingy innings and a season-high 118 pitches. The Sox bullpen had thrown 14 2/3 innings the previous two games, including two by Matt Albers, who started Saturday in Sale's place after Sale was scratched and sent home for destroying the throwback jerseys the team was supposed to wear.
"Got a lot of support," Quintana said. "I wanted to go longer, but I know I threw a lot of pitches."
Quintana gave up three hits, a walk, no runs and struck out four. He also was steadfast in his desire to stay with the White Sox amid trade-deadline rumors.
"I want to stay here," the All-Star left-hander said before Saturday's game. "I like it here. I want to win here. And I'm here. I'm here for now."
Avisail Garcia led off the suspended game with an infield single and stole second before Adam Eaton drove him home to set off a celebration near first base.
Eaton, the team's real leadoff hitter, scored the winning run in the ninth of the second game on Melky Cabrera's single.
"Baseball is funny like that. It will beat you down, but then it will build you back up," Eaton said. "It's a love-hate relationship, for sure. ... It was big for our club on and off the field."
