Jackson Ties It in 9th, Angels Lose It in 11th : Baseball: Sosa scores from second base on infield hit to give White Sox a 3-2 victory.

Bo Jackson finally got back against a pitcher who has dominated him, and Lance Johnson got the cheapest kind of run batted in Friday as the Chicago White Sox beat the Angels, 3-2.

Jackson hit a two-out, two-run pinch-homer off Mark Langston in the ninth inning to tie the score, 2-2.

Johnson’s infield hit scored pinch-runner Sammy Sosa from second base to win it in the 11th inning.

“(Langston) is one of the few guys I don’t want to face,” Jackson said. “He’s a tough pitcher, and he pitches me really tough.”

In 21 at-bats against Langston, Jackson had only one hit--a home run--and had struck out 16 times.

“(Langston) just let a fastball drift over the plate and (Jackson) took it (out),” Angel Manager Buck Rodgers said.

Langston was in control, leading, 2-0, in the ninth inning when Johnson reached on a fielder’s choice after Mike Huff had walked with one out.

Jackson, pinch-hitting for Ron Karkovice, swung and missed at Langston’s first pitch, took two balls, and then hit his second home run of the season, a towering 385-foot shot to right field.

“I was surprised when Manager Jeff Torborg told me I might bat,” Jackson said. “But things worked out. I guess Skip knows best.

“I was pumped. That was one of the few times I was hoping to hit the ball out. I was saying to myself, ‘I’ve got to hit the ball out to keep us in the game.’ The feeling is indescribable. You’ve got to be the one to hit the ball out in that situation to know how it feels.”

Rodgers brought in Mark Eichhorn to begin the 11th inning.

In four September starts, Langston has allowed four earned runs in 31 1/3 innings, a 1.16 ERA. He hasn’t lost since Aug. 20, when Oakland beat him, 3-2.

“He pitched a good game and had plenty of stuff left,” Rodgers said. “They just outplayed us at the end. Langston had his pitches in order. I thought he was sprinting at the end.

With two outs in the 11th, pinch-hitter Warren Newson singled off Eichhorn (3-3). Scott Bailes replaced Eichhorn and had pinch-runner Sammy Sosa picked off first. But Sosa broke for second and was credited with a stolen base when first baseman Lee Stevens’ throw to second pulled shortstop Dick Schofield off the bag.

Johnson followed with a high chopper to first that Stevens fielded and flipped to Bailes near the first-base bag. But Johnson beat Bailes to the base, and Sosa came around from second and beat Bailes’ throw to the plate.

“I never stopped,” Sosa said. “At first I thought it was a base hit to right field. But when the first baseman threw to the pitcher, that gave me the couple of steps I needed.”