It might not have been redemption for Bobby Jenks, but it was certainly a good evening for him and the White Sox.

Jenk’s sixth save wasn’t a 1-2-3 inning. But it re-established the closer in his domain -- the 9th inning -- after blowing Sunday’s game against Toronto.

“It’s one game,” Jenks said. “Everybody’s hitting the panic button in [expletive] April. Chill out. The other game [Friday night] I gave up a solo home run, the wind was blowing out 20 miles per an hour.”

Jenks was upset that the finger was pointed solely at him after Sunday’s disaster. He was five-for-five in save opportunities previous to that contest.

“I don’t want to comment too much about it because I don’t want to really start anything, but it’s one game,” he said. “It’s one [expletive] game. Things happen.”

On Tuesday night, Jenks had three runs to work with when he gave up a monster double to center field off the bat of former teammate Jim Thome.

“The worst part is that when you make a mist take you want to miss down,” Jenks said. “But not to Jim, he a low-ball hitter. That’s the exception where missing up is better.”

Jenks threw a wild pitch that allowed a pinch-runner to advance to third base but he was able to retire Nick Punto and Denard Span to end the game.

After Thome’s double, manager Ozzie Guillen came out to the mound to deliver a quick message to Jenks.

“When you’re a closer, I don’t care how good your stuff is, you can’t get behind on hitters,” Guillen said. “The last thing we wanted to do in that inning was to see [Joe] Mauer and [Justin] Morneau come up there. If you want to put yourself in that position, then I’ll put somebody else out there to pitch.”

Jenks had the final word of the evening when he declared that Thome has to stop inning bombs like he did off of him Tuesday night.

“I know where he lives,” Jenks said. “I’ll toilet paper his house.”

Notes