Kansas City's Joey Gathright (2) catches a fly ball as he collides with Mark Teahen in the 11th inning. The Royals fell to the White Sox, 8-7, in 13 innings, Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas City, Mo. ? After a long night of mistakes and misplays ended with Chicago beating Kansas City, 8-7, in 13 innings Tuesday, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen found little to praise.

“The only good thing about this game is we win,” he said. “That’s a pretty bad, a real bad game. Mistakes, bad pitching. For both sides, it was real poor game-playing.”

Both Chicago and Kansas City used six pitchers in the 4-hour, 20-minute game that included two errors, three wild pitches, a passed ball, a hit batsman and four double plays.

Perhaps the weirdest sight of all was the two-run sacrifice fly by A.J. Pierzynski that gave the White Sox a 7-5 lead in the top of the 11th.

“It’s disappointing that we lost the game, but it was encouraging to see us come back,” Royals manager Trey Hillman said.

Orlando Cabrera of the White Sox scored Alexei Ramirez on a perfectly executed hit-and-run double in the 13th. The Royals then loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the inning, but Nick Masset (1-0) coaxed a game-ending double play from Mark Grudzielanek.

“We had some good at-bats,” Hillman said. “It was a matter of us not being able to keep them off the board.”

With one out in the 13th, Ramirez reached on an infield single, his career-high fourth hit, and scored easily as Cabrera sliced a double into right-center off Robinson Tejada (0-1).

Masset went two innings for the win after Scott Linebrink blew the save in the 11th, allowing the Royals to tie it 7-all.

“The only two words I can give you for me out there are I stink,” Linebrink said. “But fortunately we’ve got a great team. It’s disappointing for me because of the way we battled back in the game. It’s disappointing, but you really can see the heart in these guys.”

The Royals got the potential winning run on base in the 12th, but Billy Butler made one of the poorest bunt attempts of the season, and the White Sox easily turned it into a double play.

“I put him in a situation I should probably not have put him in,” Hillman said.

With one out and the bases loaded and the game tied 5-all in the 11th, Pierzynski hit Horacio Ramirez’s 0-2 pitch deep to center. Joey Gathright fell down after making the catch near the wall and almost collided with left fielder David DeJesus. Joe Crede scored from third and Ramirez rushed home from second, sliding in well ahead of the throw.

Both runs were unearned.

“He kept his head up and he looked at his third base coach and he never stopped running. That’s the reason he’s going to be my second baseman,” Guillen said.

The Royals tied it 7-all in the bottom of the 11th when Mike Aviles had an RBI single and Alex Gordon brought him in with a double off Linebrink.