NEW YORK -- Chicago White Sox right-hander Mat Latos exited the shower, headed to his locker and gazed at the throng of media surrounding his clubhouse neighbor, Matt Albers.

"The only guy that's going to get called out of the bullpen and (expletive) pinch-hit next time we play interleague," Latos said.

Albers, a grinned plastered across his face, shook his head.

"That's my last one," Albers said.

If so, he went out in style.

Albers doubled leading off the 13th inning Wednesday afternoon and came around to score the tie-breaking run before he threw a second scoreless inning to earn the win in the White Sox' 2-1 victory over the New York Mets at Citi Field.

"I think any time you're in extra innings, it gets a little weird," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.

That's one way to put what happened as Wednesday wore on.

Albers, the seventh White Sox pitcher, allowed one hit in the 12th before he had no choice but to step to the plate against Mets right-hander Logan Verrett. Chicago had one reliever, left-hander Matt Purke, left in the bullpen, and Ventura didn't want to use his one healthy bench player, catcher Dioner Navarro, in case something happened to starter Alex Avila.

Albers hadn't batted since 2009, hadn't recorded a hit since 2007 and hadn't scored a run since he was a minor leaguer in 2006. But after borrowing a bat and a helmet from Navarro, he worked the count to 2-2 before hitting Verrett's sixth pitch deep into the left-center field gap, where it eluded Gold Glove center fielder Juan Lagares, who was playing shallow.

The 33-year-old Albers, who is listed at 6-foot-1 and 225 pounds, then took third base on a wild pitch by Verrett and chugged home on a fly ball to deep center by Jose Abreu for the White Sox's first run since Todd Frazier's homer leading off the seventh.

"I told (third base coach Joe) McEwing, I was like 'You let me know,' and Joe was like 'Hey man, you better go,'" Albers said. "Went as fast as I could."

Albers trotted into a dugout that greeted him with a euphoria not often seen at the big league level.

"When a pitcher gets a hit and gets on base, it gets fun," Ventura said. "They're like kids. They can be like Little League guys, jumping around. When he got to third, I think it was even more so. And then the fact that he could score? They're kids. It's like Little League. It really is."

After catching his breath, Albers headed back out to the mound for the bottom of the 13th, when he retired Lagares on a groundout and struck out Ty Kelly before Rene Rivera worked a walk. Albers then got pinch-hitter Kevin Plawecki, the Mets' last healthy player on the bench, to ground out to third.

"Battle it out for that long, you want to win those extra-inning games," Albers said. "A reliever hits a double then scores and then he pitches two innings? That's great. That's not going to happen every day."

The White Sox (29-25) won the final two games of the three-game series for just their second two-game winning streak since May 10, a span in which they are 6-15.

"Probably the best moment of my major league career, just to see that," said Latos, an eight-year veteran. "If that doesn't light a fire under us right there, it's going to be extremely hard to (do so)."

It wasn't as fun for the Mets (29-23), who drew a season-high 13 walks but stranded 14 runners and hit into five double plays, one shy of the team record.

"We're not driving anybody in," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "In baseball, you've got to pick each other up and you've got to have someone step up when somebody else hasn't."

Rivera had an RBI single in the second. Neil Walker also had two hits for the Mets, who scored just nine runs in the final five games of a 2-4 homestand.

"We had a lot of opportunities to win a number of games on this homestand and couldn't put a big hit on the board," Collins said.

NOTES: The White Sox became just the second team since 2013 to win a game in which their pitchers combined for 13 walks and while allowing one or fewer runs. ... The only position players not to appear in the game were White Sox C Dioner Navarro, White Sox CF Austin Jackson and Mets 3B David Wright. Both Jackson (turf toe) and Wright (herniated disk in neck) were unavailable due to injuries that kept them out the entire series. ... The Mets' starter, RHP Jacob deGrom, allowed one run on five hits and two walks while striking out 10 over seven innings. The White Sox's starter, RHP Miguel Gonzalez, allowed one run on three hits and five walks while striking out four over five innings.