PHOENIX — Chicago White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami demolished a second-inning offering from Arizona Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly for a 426-foot solo home run to right field.
Miguel Vargas then hit a liner that got over the left-field wall for back-to-back home runs.
The Sox weren’t done.
Colson Montgomery followed with a 440-foot home run to center field.
The Sox went back-to-back-to-back for the first time since 2020 on the way to an 11-5 victory against the Diamondbacks on Tuesday in front of 23,045 at Chase Field.
The Sox scored four runs in the first inning. And followed that up with the three consecutive home runs in the second inning. The last time the Sox hit three home runs in a row came on Sept. 19, 2020, when Tim Anderson, Yasmani Grandal and José Abreu accomplished the feat in the eighth inning at Cincinnati.
Colson Montgomery of the Chicago White Sox rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the second inning at Chase Field on April 21, 2026, in Phoenix. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Murakami went 3-for-5 with a walk on Tuesday. The home run was his ninth of the season. He has homered in four consecutive games.
Vargas has four home runs on the season and Montgomery has six. Vargas has homered in two straight games. Montgomery has homered in three straight games.
Montgomery drove in two runs in the first inning with a double. Everson Pereira had a sacrifice fly to right and Sam Antonacci had an RBI triple in the inning as the Sox went ahead 4-0.
The three straight home runs in the second stretched the lead to 7-0.
Sox starter Sean Burke made the most of the run support, allowing two runs on five hits with three strikeouts and one walk in six innings.
The team’s fourth home run came in unique circumstances.
With a runner on and no outs in the ninth, Antonacci hit a fair ball just inside the third-base line. Diamondbacks left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. stopped when the ball person in foul territory touched the ball. But the umpires ruled the play still live and Antonacci ran around the bases for a two-run, inside-the-park home run. The play was unreviewable, and Antonacci had his first career major-league home run.
He became the first White Sox to record an inside-the-park home run for his first career major-league home run since Kevin Bell on June 22, 1976, at Kansas City.