Randal Grichuk delivered a bases-clearing double to punctuate a four-run third and Davis Martin worked six strong innings to lift the host Chicago White Sox to a 6-2 victory against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Chicago out-hit Minnesota 8-5 to take three of four and win its fifth straight home series.<\/p>\n
The White Sox have won nine of their past 10 games against Minnesota dating to last season.<\/p>\n
After starting 4-1 on a 10-game road trip, the Twins were outscored 21-4 over the final two games at Rate Field.<\/p>\n
Martin matched Cleveland\u2019s Gavin Williams for the American League lead in victories, improving to 8-1 with his fourth win in five May starts. The right-hander contributed his fourth quality start during that span, spacing one run and two hits with two walks and five strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Tristan Peters had three hits and an RBI for the White Sox while Colson Montgomery added two hits and an RBI. Montgomery\u2019s run-scoring single in the first inning gave Chicago an early lead after Miguel Vargas walked and stole second with two out.<\/p>\n
More two-out success helped the White Sox put the game away in the third. Two walks and a single loaded the bases ahead of Peters\u2019 RBI single against Twins right-hander Simeon Woods-Richardson. Grichuk put the game out of reach one batter later, hitting an opposite-field three-run double to chase the Minnesota starter.<\/p>\n
Woods-Richardson (0-7) allowed five runs and five hits in 2 2\/3 innings. He walked three and struck out four. Five Twins combined for 5 1\/3 innings of three-hit, one-run relief.<\/p>\n
Martin retired the first seven batters he faced before Tristan Gray\u2019s one-out single in the third. Gray doubled and scored on Ryan Kreidler groundout in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Victor Caratini added an RBI sacrifice fly for Minnesota in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Twins leadoff hitter Byron Buxton reached base on a walk and single.<\/p>\n
Chicago\u2019s Munetaka Murakami contributed an RBI single in the fourth. He had five hits \u2014 including three home runs \u2014 and five RBIs in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randal Grichuk delivered a bases-clearing double to punctuate a four-run third and Davis Martin worked six strong innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":["post-711395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-baseball","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116654714610334759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711395","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=711395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}