Dunn's homer in ninth lifts White Sox over Orioles

CHICAGO — Adam Dunn hit a one-out home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off Tommy Hunter to give the Chicago White Sox a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday.

Chicago starter Jose Quintana had a career-high 11 strikeouts and reliever Addison Reed (4-1) got the victory.

Quintana went a seventh straight game without a decision, allowing two hits over seven innings. He retired the last 13 Orioles he faced.

Alex Rios broke up a scoreless tie in the sixth inning with an RBI single and Adam followed with an RBI single off Zach Britton (2-3).

Baltimore scored twice in the eighth off reliever Nate Jones, one on an RBI infield grounder by pinch-hitter Matt Wieters and the other on Nick Markakis' sacrifice fly.

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Adam Dunn thought pitcher Jose Quintana deserved better than another no-decision in a defeat, so he did with his bat what he had failed to do with his glove.

Dunn connected with one out against Tommy Hunter (3-2). The previous inning, Dunn misplayed a grounder by Matt Wieters, paving the way for the tying run to score and depriving Quintana of his first victory since May 21.

"The way Q pitched and how that inning went down, it was good any way we could to get a win," Dunn said.

Quintana struck out a career-high 11 in seven innings. He allowed two hits and retired his last 13 batters.

Reliever Addison Reed (2-0) wound up with the win.

Dunn's home run was his 23rd this year. He has batted .272 in June and July after a .156 average in April and May.

"Like I said from Day One, I've felt pretty good all year. Just wasn't getting any results. Now it seems like I'm swinging at a little better pitches and putting some good wood on it," he said.

Dunn also singled in a run to help Chicago take a 2-0 lead in the sixth.

"He's dangerous any time he goes up there. But again, just the quality of the at-bats is great to see," Chicago manager Robin Ventura said.

Quintana was locked in from the start.

"The beginning of the game I felt I had really good control and I felt I'm really going to be able to do some things," he said a translator. "That's s what led to me striking out so many batters."

Baltimore scored twice in the eighth off reliever Nate Jones, one on Dunn's error and the other on Nick Markakis' sacrifice fly.

Quintana said the no-decision didn't bother him. His previous strikeout high was eight, set against Texas on July 5, 2012.

"Those are things you can't control," he said. "The most important thing to me is that the team wins. The best thing that I can do for the team is give the team a quality start, give the team the opportunity to win and give a quality outing."

Britton struck out three, walked one and gave up six hits over seven innings in his longest stint of the season.

"Both guys pitched real well," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "There was only going to be a small margin of error. We were fortunate to push over a couple there out of their bullpen."

Dunn decided the game by connecting on a curveball.

"It's a pitch you don't want to throw to him," Hunter said. "I would like to bury it. There were a couple righties coming up right after him."