White Sox maintain division lead

NEW YORK -- Frank Thomas hit a huge grand slam against Roger Clemens, propelling the Chicago White Sox to a big win.\nThomas homered high off the foul pole near the left-field upper deck and Magglio Ordonez followed with another long home run off the front of the center-field bleachers as the White Sox beat up the New York Yankees 13-2 Tuesday night in a matchup of division leaders.\nEsteban Loaiza (17-6) improved to 6-1 since the All-Star break, allowing one hit in seven innings and leaving with an 11-0 lead. He tied Toronto's Roy Halladay for the AL lead in wins.\nPaul Konerko and Joe Crede also homered off Clemens (12-8), who allowed four home runs in a game for only the second time in his major league career.\nKonerko, who had three hits and four RBIs, homered again in the eighth off Gabe White, making his Yankees' debut. Magglio Ordonez also homered twice for Chicago, which hit six home runs in a game for the second time this season.\nAfter his mother, Bess, threw out the ceremonial first pitch, Clemens made his 600th career start and had one of his worst outings, tying his high by allowing nine runs.\nIn his first game in New York since the Mets traded him on July 1, White Sox second baseman Roberto Alomar was booed repeatedly. He went 0-for-2 with a walk.\nChicago, which has won seven of eight, began the night with a one-game lead in the AL Central, while New York started five games up in the AL East.\nIn the first meeting between the teams this season, Clemens struck out three of his first five batters. The White Sox then built a 3-0 lead on solo homers by Konerko in the second and Crede in the third, and Konerko's RBI double in the fourth.\nMiguel Olivo hit a run-scoring triple in the fifth, and Clemens walked Alomar and Carlos Lee, bringing up Thomas. With the count 1-0, Thomas sent a drive down the left-field line, and it kicked high off the foul pole to left fielder Dave Dellucci, who caught the ball on the fly.\nThomas, who gave a big high-five to first-base coach Rafael Santana, had not hit a grand slam since Sept. 11, 2000, against Detroit. This was the eighth off his career, and it gave him six home runs in his last eight games and 35 overall this season.\nOrdonez then took a first-pitch ball and nearly put the next pitch into the hard-to-reach black section of the bleachers.\nNew York's only hit off Loaiza was a two-out single to left in the second inning by Karim Garcia. Derek Jeter hit a two-run single in the eighth off Scott Schoeneweis.