GLENDALE—The White Sox rallied late with a group of minor leaguers in the 8th inning to take the lead,but had to settle for a 5-5 ten inning tie with the Cleveland Indians.Alejandro De Aza doubled in a run,and C.J.Retherford followed with a blast into the Cleveland bullpen off loser Jess Todd.The #5 slot in the White Sox rotation is Freddy Garcia’s to lose. On Thursday against a rather rag-tag group in Cleveland Indians uniforms at Camelback Ranch, Garia worked three frames,but the iddle one saw him tagged for three runs as eight batters cae to the plate for the Tribe. That was after red hot Carlos Quentin doubled in the Sox first and scored on a single by Paul Konerko off Mitch Talbot who is trying to make the Indians rotation. The trouble for Garcia in the  second started when one of the veterans Austin Kearns doubled and came home on a triple into the RF corner by Lonnie Chisenhall.Two outs,and a walk later, Jason Donald singled in a run,and Michael Brantley also drove a run home with a hit. Garcia settled down in the third and finished with three innings of five hit,three run ball,having fanned tree and walking one. Scott Linebrink later tossed a scoreless 5th inning,but he walked a pair.J.J.Putz escaped the Cleveland 6th by standing two runners.Ramon Castro launched a long homer to left field in the bottom of the fifth to bring the Sox to within 3-2.Cleveland added a run in their half of the 8th to take a short lived 4-2 lead.

NOTES—Attendance was announced at 4100….The Sox split their squad the next two days with half of it facing half of the Cubs in Las Vegas while half of the team plays a split Angels squad in Tempe Friday.

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