White Sox Aid Rally by Angels, Who Win in 11th : Baseball: California ties Chicago in the ninth on three walks and two hit batters. DiSarcina gets the winning hit, 4-3.

OK, maybe this is a team of destiny.

For eight innings Saturday night, the Angels were frustrated by former teammate Jim Abbott, who got 16 outs via the ground ball and gave up only one run. But Abbott left in the ninth inning after giving up a single to Tim Salmon, and the Angels managed to tie the score with a two-run “rally” that consisted of a double play, a wild pitch, two hit batters and three walks.

Jim Edmonds led off the 11th with his third single of the game and took second on Jorge Fabregas’ single to left. Gary DiSarcina followed with a line-drive single to right, but Mike Devereaux’s throw home arrived while Edmonds was still 15 feet from the plate. Catcher Ron Karkovice bobbled the throw, however, and made the tag without the ball to give the Angels a 4-3 victory in front of a paid crowd of 32,185 in Anaheim Stadium.

Home plate umpire John Shulock called Edmonds out before he noticed the ball was on the ground. Karkovice got an error on the play.

“It looked like the ball was going to beat him,” Manager Marcel Lachemann said, “but that’s a tough play with the ball skipping up there off the dirt. And the ninth, well, our only hit was erased by a double play.

“It was a weird one, but you’ve got to take advantage of things when they’re going your way.”

The Angels, 10 games above .500 for the first time in four years, released Mitch (Wild Thing) Williams before the game, but, no, the White Sox didn’t pick him up and bring him in to pitch the ninth.

Rob Dibble, Scott Radinsky and Roberto Hernandez combined to let the Angels back into this one.

After Salmon singled and Abbott exited to a standing ovation, Dibble came in and the White Sox turned a double play after a spectacular grab by second baseman Craig Grebeck of Davis’ shot up the middle. Dibble then hit J.T. Snow, who took second without a throw and third when the Chicago reliever uncorked a wild pitch on ball four to Edmonds.

Manager Terry Bevington went to the bullpen again, bringing in left-hander Radinsky, who walked Spike Owen on four pitches to load the bases. That again brought out Bevington, who brought in Hernandez to pitch to pinch-hitter Garret Anderson.

Hernandez hit Anderson in the foot with an 0-2 pitch to allow one run to score. When he threw three balls without a strike to DiSarcina, an irate Frank Thomas came down from first base to argue the call, threw his hat and was ejected by John Shulock.

Bevington sprinted out to join the fray and got thrown out too.

After order was restored, Hernandez threw a fourth consecutive ball to walk DiSarcina and tie the score. Rex Hudler lined to second to end the inning.

“We did all that without putting the ball in play,” Snow said, smiling. “That’s unbelievable.”

Until then, it had been Abbott’s show. The word around the league is that he has lost a couple of miles per hour off his fastball. The words around Anaheim Stadium are, “So what.”

The Angels will hear nothing about Abbott’s failure to live up to the potential expected of him when they picked him in the first round (No. 8 overall) in the 1988 draft. He may be only 70-76 in his career, but his earned-run average against the Angels is 1.79.

“He had his stuff working,” said Chili Davis, whose seventh-inning homer ended Abbott’s shutout bid.

Designated hitter Tim Raines provided Abbott with a quick advantage on the fifth pitch of the game, depositing a 3-1 Mark Langston delivery in the seats in left field. The White Sox went ahead, 2-0, in the fourth when Thomas walked--it was his league-leading 53rd walk of the season--went to third on Devereaux’s single and scored on Robin Ventura’s single to center.

Edmonds, who singled in the third inning to extend his hitting streak to a career-best 13 games, had the Angels’ only hit through the first five innings. Abbott retired 10 in a row before Hudler singled in the sixth.

Devereaux and Ventura put Chicago up, 3-1, with back-to-back doubles in the eighth.