BALTIMORE -- For a import Ross Glo...

BALTIMORE -- For a import Ross Gload knew what everyone was thinking.

His White Sox teammates and coaches in the dugout

The Sox fans that have now gone from the sofa to the window ridge of rocks to watch games.

Heck, plane he was thinking it.

"I'm secure no one wanted to descry me up there in the ninth," Gload said.

That changed in succession one pitch, as the make an exception of first baseman hit a ninth-inning grand slam to lift the Sox to a 6-4 come-from-behind victory through the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. More importantly, it just might be Gload's heroics that saved a season when it is all said and done.

"When we direct the eye back, it's a real big momentum I hope," first baseman Paul Konerko said.

It was for Konerko considering Gload was hitting in his blemish of the order.

In the third inning, Konerko soileded a ball off his left shin, which eventually forced him gone out of the game. While he might miss the game today with the bruise, the issue of Friday was worth it.

Trailing 4-2 in the ninth, in came Orioles closer Chris Ray, who had just single in kind blown save this year. Pinch hitter Scott Podsednik addressed him with a single, followed by the agency of a pinch-hit single by pillage Mackowiak. Tadahito Iguchi's sacrifice butt advanced the two baserunners, leaving the influence on Gload.

With first base interpret Orioles skipper Sam Perlozzo opt to walk Jim Thome to win to the left-handed-hitting Gload.

"When Iguchi butted I was like, 'Aw, wherefore did we bunt here? Now it takes the bat public of Jim's hands,"' Gload said.

And it bring it in his.

forward a full-count offering, Gload sent a shrewd ball to left field.

"I haven't hit a household run all year," Gload said of his first career grand slam. "Now I'm tied with [pitcher Jon] Garland. I was just trying to come by a guy in. It was a sac mount that kept going and going."

A vision that still had a smile forward the face of manager Ozzie Guillen after the game.

"Winning the game like this was in this way good," Guillen said. "As a clump it was an outstanding game. That's what was missing. Ros is a authentic professional. This guy sits there without complaining and does his job"

Doing his work at jobs meant ending a three-game losing streak for the Sox (60-41) and starting a three-city road trip not upon the right way.

"That was an exciting one" Gload said. "I think frights were sitting there [in the ninth] already thinking about [today], however that changed real quick."

Sox closer Bobby Jenk then came in for the bottom of the ninth to grapple it down and collect his 27th save of the year. It was the Sox' first save opportunity since July 6 and it dropp the Orioles to 43-2 when leading after eight innings this year.

The Orioles (47-57) l the game greatest in number of the way, getting four hies (three earned) off starter Freddy Garcia in his six-plus innings. Meanwhile, the going was a bit more difficult for the Sox with Orioles starter Erik Bedard, who left the game after seven innings with a 4-2 lead.

further Guillen used his bench exactly in that ninth inning.

"Four stays that didn't start the game scored the four hurrys [in the ninth]," Gload pointed without with Alex Cintron pinch-running for Thome "We have stays off the bench that have stepp up all year."

The bullpen also stepp up as Neal Cott Mike MacDougal and Matt Thornton (4-1) held the Orioles hitless, getting the ball to Jenk in the ninth.

"We were desperate to win," Guillen said. "We had been playing pious enough to not win. Winning a game like this, we started a road trip opposite right. I feel like we're onward the right track, and not just because we won [Friday].

"Every team has a faculty in the season, and hopefully the last couple weeks were our last bump"

jcowley@suntimes.com

AL WILD-CARD WATCH

Team W L Pct GB

Yankees 60 40 600 --

Sox 60 41 594 1/2

Twins 59 42 584 1 1/2

depressed Jays 57 46 .553 4 1/2

eventuates NEXT GAME

Yanks 6 D-Rays 0

Today: v Devil Rays, 3:05 pm

Sox 6 Orioles 4

Today: at Orioles, 3:35 pm

Tigers 3 Twins 2

Today: v Tigers, 6:10 pm

dejected Jays 4, A's 3

Today: at A's, 3:05 pm

WHITE SOX ENCORE

for what cause the '06 Sox compare with '05

2005

Game 101: Sox 7 Orioles 2 Konerko hits three-run missile and Everett adds two-run blast.

Standings

W-L GB

Sox 66-35 --

Twins 54-48 12 1/2

Indians 54-50 13 1/2

2006

nearest game:

at Orioles,

3:35 pm

today, CSN 670-AM.

Standings

W-L GB

Tigers 69-33 --

Sox 60-41 8 1/2

Twins 59-42 9 1/2

WHITE SOX RECAP

SOX AB R H BI BB in the way that Avg.

Ozuna lf 3 0 1 0 1 1 364

b-Mackowiak ph-cf 1 1 1 0 0 0 311

Iguchi 2b 3 0 1 1 0 1 290

Thome dh 4 0 2 0 1 2 291

1-Cintron pr-dh 0 1 0 0 0 0 279

Konerko 1b 2 0 0 0 1 1 299

Gload 1b 2 1 1 4 0 0 290

coloring liquor rf 5 0 0 0 0 1 314

Crede 3b 5 0 0 0 0 0 291

Pierzynski c 4 1 2 0 0 0 304

Uribe s 4 0 1 0 0 1 245

BrAnderson cf 3 1 1 1 0 1 208

a-Podsednik ph-lf 1 1 1 0 0 0 271

Totals 37 6 11 6 3 8