MINNEAPOLIS _ Avisail Garcia clapped his hands as he rounded first base and saw his fourth hit of the afternoon sailing into the right-field stands.
Garcia's two-run homer off Twins right-hander Ryan Pressly gave the White Sox a 3-1, 10-inning victory Sunday afternoon at Target Field.
Leury Garcia doubled and advanced on Tyler Saladino's sacrifice bunt, but he waited on third while Jose Abreu struck out. Then stepped up Garcia, who sent the second pitch he saw out to tie his career high for hits.
Before Garcia's big moment, it looked like another type of homer might define Sunday's game.
In the fifth inning, Sox center fielder Jacob May charged back toward the fence on Brian Dozier's fly ball and made a leaping attempt at a catch, but the ball glanced off his glove and into the wall.
As May scrambled toward the bouncing ball, Dozier sped around the bases on the way to an inside-the-park home run and an early Twins lead.
Dozier had sat out Saturday's game against the Sox with a sore right knee, but it didn't seem to slow him as he charged around the bases, losing his helmet between second and third base. His head-first slide into the plate beat the tag of lunging catcher Kevan Smith, who caught Garcia's relay throw along the first-base line.
Sox right-hander James Shields looked on in disbelief, hand on his hip, as Dozier celebrated the feat that broke a scoreless tie. It was the Twins' first inside-the-park homer since Oct. 2 of last season, when Byron Buxton hit one against the Sox.
It was the only run Shields allowed over six innings. He gave up five hits with three walks and five strikeouts, the biggest against Buxton to strand the bases loaded in the fourth.
Sox reliever Nate Jones earned the win in relief, and Sox closer David Robertson recorded his third save with his fifth scoreless inning of the season.
The Sox were trying to rebound from Ervin Santana's one-hitter Saturday, and Avisail Garcia ended the club's hitless streak at seven innings with a second-inning single against Twins lefty Hector Santiago.
But they left seven runners on base in the first seven innings, including four in scoring position.
They finally broke out in the eighth to tie it 1-1 on Matt Davidson's sacrifice fly to shallow center field. Abreu scored when Buxton's throw bounced off the mound and away from the plate to end the Sox's 18-inning scoreless streak.
They tried to regroup and relax Saturday night with a team dinner, which was planned before Saturday afternoon's 6-0 loss.
"We like team dinners because we get all of them together in one room with the coaches and staff, have a good time, relax, share some camaraderie away from the field," Sox manager Rick Renteria said. "We spend so much time together, but I don't know that many clubs actually get together and have team dinners, to be honest. For me, it's a good time to get together and bond a little bit more on a personal level."
The Sox again were without third baseman Todd Frazier, who missed his third game while battling the flu. He played in the field Saturday but left in the fourth inning when his stomach acted up again. Renteria said Sunday he was dehydrated.
Shortstop Tim Anderson also had the day off as Renteria said he "has been pressing a little bit."
