CHICAGO – Adam Dunn waited 12 years for this moment.

The postseason used to exist as a figment of his imagination. As the White Sox stood four outs away from falling into a first-place tie with the Detroit Tigers, Dunn might have saved the Sox’s season.

Behind in the count 0-2 against Cleveland reliever Vinnie Pestano – what would have been an automatic out last year – Dunn clubbed his second home run of the game, a three-run homer that just cleared the right-center field fence. It catapulted the Sox to a two-run lead, and the bullpen held off the Indians in the ninth for a 5-4 comeback win to snap a five-game losing streak.