Photos: Chicago White Sox 5, Los Angeles Angels 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nColson Montgomery gave the Sox a 1-0 lead with a home run to right field leading off the second inning.<\/p>\n
The Angels evened the score with a run in the fourth. Romo, batting from the left side against Soriano, responded with the two-run home run to right field in the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n
Soriano allowed three runs on six hits with six strikeouts and three walks in five innings. He still leads the major leagues in ERA (0.84).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe stuck with the plan,\u201d Venable said of the approach against Soriano. \u201cI thought even in that first inning where he kind of blew through the top of our lineup (striking out the side), they were good at-bats and we saw that continue throughout the lineup where guys were making good swing decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to make sure we didn\u2019t chase below the zone. I thought the guys did a good job and we were able to put some balls in play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Batting from the right side, Romo\u2019s home run to left-center against Suter in the sixth extended the lead to 4-1.<\/p>\n
Romo also helped behind the plate, working with Davis Martin. The right-hander continued his fantastic beginning to the 2026 season, allowing one run on seven hits with seven strikeouts and one walk in 5 2\/3 innings. Martin is in the top 10 in the majors with a 1.95 ERA.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the credit goes to the offense and that kind of loosened me up to be able to go out there and pitch my game,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
Romo was glad to play a role.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won the game, which is most important,\u201d Romo said. \u201cWinning comes first and after that I mean, so thankful, so appreciative.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything it has taken to get here, all the ups and downs, incredible ride, journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Injury update<\/p>\n
The Sox completed the game without outfielder Everson Pereira, who exited after the fourth inning with right shoulder soreness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s been something that\u2019s kind of come in and out and been something that\u2019s bothered him here and there,\u201d Venable said.<\/p>\n
The Sox said Pereira is day-to-day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox have been searching for offensive production from the catching position. Drew Romo provided just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,14899,10857,3508,56,4,396,2562,998],"class_list":["post-685565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-drew-romo","tag-everson-pereira","tag-jose-soriano","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mlb","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116486155610031227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685565","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=685565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Chicago White Sox catcher Drew Romo is congratulated by his teammates in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run in the fourth inning of a game against the Los Angeles Angels at Rate Field in Chicago on April 28, 2026. (Chris Sweda\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n