CINCINNATI (AP) – Davis Martin pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the slumping Cincinnati Reds 4-2 on Wednesday night for their season-high third consecutive win.<\/p>\n
Lenyn Sosa and Michael A. Taylor homered as Chicago improved to 14-29 with its fourth victory in five games overall. The White Sox were 13-30 after 43 games in 2024, when they went 41-121 to break the post-1900 major league record for losses in a season.<\/p>\n
Martin (2-4) allowed seven hits in a career-high 6 2\/3 innings in his first win since April 11. The right-hander went 0-3 with a 3.86 ERA in his previous five appearances.<\/p>\n
Mike Vasil handled the ninth for his first save in his 13th career game.<\/p>\n
Playing in front of a capacity crowd of 43,585 on Pete Rose Night, Cincinnati lost for the ninth time in 11 games. The Reds have scored a total of 16 runs in their last five games, and that includes a 13-9 victory at Houston on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Spencer Steer homered for Cincinnati, which went 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position. Steer and Gavin Lux each had two of the team’s nine hits.<\/p>\n
The White Sox jumped in front in the second against Nick Lodolo (3-4). Luis Robert Jr. singled, stole second and scored on Andrew Vaughn’s double into the corner in left.<\/p>\n
Robert added an RBI single in the fifth, and Sosa connected for his third homer in the sixth. Taylor hit a leadoff drive in the seventh against Scott Barlow.<\/p>\n
Lodolo was charged with three runs and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Austin Hays hit a two-out RBI double for Cincinnati in the eighth. But Steer flied out to center, ending the inning.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
The White Sox are 5-17 on the road this season. They went 18-63 on the road last year.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Bryse Wilson (0-1, 4.88 ERA) starts for the White Sox in the series finale on Thursday afternoon. Nick Martinez (1-4, 4.23 ERA) pitches for the Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) – Davis Martin pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,5285,6646,4851,4,1331,536,6288,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-27713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-davis-martin","13":"tag-lenyn-sosa","14":"tag-michael-a-taylor","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-nick-lodolo","17":"tag-reds","18":"tag-spencer-steer","19":"tag-white-sox","20":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}