Sox, Dotson come close // Whitt's double lifts Jays

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Richard Dotson was one pitch from a tidy triumph for the WhiteSox Wednesday night. All he needed was a strike. One more strike.

He threw it, but Ernie Whitt hit the 0-and-2 pitch so hard thatby the time the dented ball was retrieved from the right-fieldcorner, two runs were in and Dotson was a 3-2 loser to the Blue Jays.

All for the lack of a double play. Two double plays.

"We had two chances and didn't make either one," manager JimFregosi said. "When you make errors in the ninth inning of a one-rungame, you're going to lose, and we did."

The Sox lost because Ozzie Guillen was too hasty in his attemptto take a throw …