By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-After seeing the San Francisco Giants tie up the game in the bottom of the ninth inning, Santiago Casilla gave up the lead in the next inning.

Gordon Beckham singled to left field to score Moises Sierra from third base, as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Giants 3-2 before a crowd of 42,317, the 306th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

Sierra singled after Jordan Danks walked with one out, and Alejandro De Aza hit into a Fielders’ Choice that retired Danks at the plate; however White Sox manager Robin Ventura challenged the call, saying Buster Posey blocked the plate.

After a one minute and 12 second review, the play was upheld and Danks was out at he plate for the second out; however Beckham then supplied the heroics, when he singled to left field.

Chris Sale went eight innings, not allowing a run on four hits, while walking two and striking out 12; however he did not fare in the decision.

Adam Dunn supplied the only offense that Sale would get, as he took a Ryan Vogelsong pitch and put it into the left-center field bleachers for his 18th home run of the season in the top of the first inning.

De Aza led off the game with a single, but was retired at second base on a Fielders’ Choice off the bat of rookie sensation Jose Abreu.

Hunter Pence tripled with one out in the bottom of the first inning, but was retired at home plate on a great throw by Alexei Ramirez that just barely got Pence at the plate.

Following the Pence triple, Joe Panik was the next Giants batter to hit a ball out of the infield and that came in the bottom of the fifth inning and the Panik single stopped a streak of 10 in a row retired by Sale.

It was a tough no decision for Vogelsong, who once again failed to get any run support from his teammates, as he went seven innings, allowing just runs, allowing just three hits, walking two and striking out five

After a rough first inning, that saw Vogelsong give up those two runs on two hits; however over the final six innings he was on the mound, the right-hander only gave one hit in the top of the second inning to former Giants infielder Conor Gillaspie, who tripled to leadoff the second.

Angel Pagan led off the bottom of the sixth inning with a single to right field off of Sale, but Pence struck out for the second time in three at-bats, then Buster Posey flew out to Dunn in right field and finally Pablo Sandoval ended the inning on fly out to Jordan Danks in centerfield.

White Sox closer Jake Petricka was unable to close it out, as Pablo Sandoval, Michael Morse and pinch hitter Travis Ishikawa each singled to load the bases for Joe Panik grounded into a double play on an amazing play by Gordon Beckham, who dove for the ball, flipped the ball out of his glove to Ramirez to retire Ishikawa and then Ramirez threw to Abreu to get Panik.

Following the double play of the bat of Panik, Crawford tied up the game with a single to right field to score Sandoval from third base.\