Angels Get No Pay for Working Overtime : Baseball: For the second time in less than 18 hours, they lose to the White Sox.

As if falling 22 games below .500 wasn’t degrading enough, the Angels suffered the ignominy of losing two extra-inning games in the same day.

At least they didn’t have to play a doubleheader.

On the heels of a 16-10, 10-inning defeat that lasted until 12:35 Sunday morning, the Angels repeated the experience Sunday afternoon, losing to the Chicago White Sox, 10-5, in 12 innings.

The Angels took a two-run lead into the ninth inning, gave up a two-run homer to a batter who hadn’t hit a home run in almost two years, and then disintegrated in the 12th.

Ozzie Guillen tripled to lead off the 12th inning on a line drive that took a bizarre hop behind left fielder Jim Edmonds and bounded to the wall. Joey Cora singled over the drawn-in infield, much to the delight of what remained of a crowd of 21,921, many of whom apparently want to see Chicago in first place in the AL Central if a player strike begins on Friday.

The White Sox batted around, and Guillen’s infield single drove in the fifth run of the inning. The Angels’ only solace was that nine hours of baseball’s version of torture was finally ending.

“If you win, you don’t give a damn how long it takes,” said reliever Mark Leiter, who gave up six runs in the 10th inning of Saturday night’s game and pitched two scoreless innings Sunday. “But after what I did last night and what happened today, speaking as a relief pitcher, you feel like you’ve let the whole team down.

“It’s tough to rebound. We really need someone to pick us up, but it seems like we can’t all screw up at once. Instead, the people we’re counting on are taking turns doing it at crucial times.”

Sunday, Manager Marcel Lachemann was ready to take the blame.

“That’s the worst-managed game I’ve ever been involved with, and I was managing it,” he said. “The players were playing hard enough to win, but I stunk.”

Lachemann was upset he used Bo Jackson to pinch hit in the eighth inning with Tim Salmon on second base, first base open and the Angels leading, 5-3. Jackson was intentionally walked, and Salmon was stranded when Harold Reynolds popped up and Gary DiSarcina flied to right.

Then the roof fell in.

Chicago’s Darrin Jackson led off the ninth inning with a single against Russ Springer, who was working on a 14-inning scoreless streak. The streak ended one out later when Mike LaValliere--who came to the plate averaging one homer in every 148 at-bats and had not hit one since Aug. 22, 1992, when he played for Pittsburgh--hit the 17th home run of his 11-season major league career and the game was destined for extra innings.

For the second game in a row, the Angels used six pitchers and too few of them were effective. This time, Joe Magrane and Joe Grahe, both of whom pitched in Saturday’s game, were roughed up in the 12th.

Is this a team ready to face the streaking Kansas City Royals, winners of 14 of their last 16 games?

“You come back out and play the next day,” Lachemann said. “You either suck it up or get out.”

As far as starter Phil Leftwich is concerned, a getaway might be in order. After losing six of his last eight decisions, a strike is beginning to look like a vacation.

“Boy, it’s tough when you hit five home runs one night and three the next day and lose them both,” he said.

“Obviously, things aren’t going very well. Maybe the strike couldn’t happen at a better time.”