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Friday, Mar. 30 8:05pm ET
Milwaukee 5, Chicago 4
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MILWAUKEE (AP) _ While it was only an exhibition game, the Milwaukee Brewers opened Miller Park with a win.

Ron Belliard scored from second base on first baseman Paul Konerko's eighth-inning error as the Brewers rallied to beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 on Friday night.

It was the first of two exhibitions at the Brewers' new $399 retractable-roof ballpark. They play Boston on Saturday and will open the stadium officially on April 6 against Cincinnati.

Ray Durham went 3-for-5, including an RBI single in the seventh off Juan Acevedo that snapped a 3-3 tie.

The Brewers tied it at 4 in the eighth on Geoff Jenkins' two-out RBI single off Sean Lowe (1-2). Devon White then hit an infield single to first that Konerko fielded. He tried to flip the ball out of his glove to Lowe, but the ball sailed over Lowe's head.

David Weathers (1-1) got the victory, and Curtis Leskanic pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save of the spring.

There were three home runs, all of which cleared the short "power" 370-foot alley in left-center field. None of them would have gone out of County Stadium, where the alleys were 392 feet.

Durham led off the game with a double down the right-field line and an inning later, Sandy Alomar Jr. became the first hitter to take advantage of short power with a solo homer off Paul Rigdon into the visitor's bullpen.

Henry Blanco tied it at 1 with a homer to the same spot in the bottom half of the inning off Cal Eldred.

Former Brewers shortstop Jose Valentin made it 3-1 in the third with a two-run homer to left-center off Rigdon.

The Brewers tied it again with two unearned runs in the fourth. Jose Hernandez scored from third on third baseman Herbert Perry's error and Eldred hit Richie Sexson with a pitch on his left hand and the bases full.

Sexson was replaced by Angel Echevarria after the inning. The Brewers had no immediate word on Sexson's injury because one of the stadium's kinks was not having a phone line to the clubhouse from the press box.

Eldred walked six in four innings. Rigdon gave up six hits and two walks in four innings.

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Texas 13
Minnesota 5

Baltimore 4
NY Mets 3

Kansas City 9
Florida 6

Cincinnati 3
Philadelphia 0

Montreal 0
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