{"id":713218,"date":"2026-05-31T01:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713218\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:24:22","slug":"chicago-white-sox-hit-3-home-runs-extending-win-streak-to-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713218\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox hit 3 home runs, extending win streak to 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago White Sox still have plenty of power even with Munetaka Murakami unavailable because of a hamstring injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Edgar Quero and Colson Montgomery hit solo home runs while Andrew Benintendi connected for a two-run home run on Saturday in a 7-1 victory against the Detroit Tigers in front of 29,435 at Rate Field.<\/p>\n

All three home runs came late in the game as the Sox won their fourth straight. At 31-27, the Sox are a season-high four games over .500.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen these guys create a culture where they bring a ton of energy, you hope that can sustain when you miss somebody and you have that built up,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cAnd these guys have done a great job of building that up, and I thought today was a great example of that where we continued to see the good effort, playing hard and playing with belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the game, the Sox placed Murakami on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain<\/a>. He could be out for four to six weeks. The first baseman leads the team with 20 home runs.<\/p>\n

The Sox scored in a variety of ways Saturday. They took advantage of a short period of wildness from Tigers starter Framber Valdez during a two-run first inning.<\/p>\n

Valdez surrendered a double to Chase Meidroth to begin the first. Miguel Vargas and Montgomery walked, which loaded the bases. With Randal Grichuk batting, Valdez threw a wild pitch. Meidroth scored, giving the Sox a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Vargas moved to third on the wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly to center by Quero.<\/p>\n

Wenceel P\u00e9rez led off the third inning for Detroit with a home run, cutting the Sox\u2019s lead to 2-1. That was the only run allowed by starter Anthony Kay<\/a>, who scattered six hits, walked one and struck out three in five-plus innings.<\/p>\n

The Tigers had runners on first and second with one out in both the fourth and fifth innings. But they didn\u2019t score in either inning, with Kay getting timely groundballs along the way.<\/p>\n

Matt Vierling led off the sixth with a single. And when Grichuk dropped Riley Greene\u2019s fly ball to right field, the Tigers had runners at first and second with no outs. Reliever Grant Taylor entered and had a strikeout, a flyout and a groundout to maintain the 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

\"ChicagoChicago White Sox closing pitcher Trevor Richards, right, celebrates with catcher Edgar Quero, left, after defeating the Detroit Tigers in a baseball game in Chicago, Saturday, May 30, 2026. (AP Photo\/Paul Beaty)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pretty much saved the day there,\u201d Kay said. \u201cFirst and second, no outs, and him to retire three guys was massive. The boys tacked on and kind of made it a comfortable win.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sox extended the lead with two runs in the seventh. Quero led off the inning with a home run, his second of the season. Benintendi doubled and later scored on a single by Rikuu Nishida, giving the Sox a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Montgomery hit his home run, his 14th of the season, in the eighth. And Benintendi added the two-run home run later in the inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team is playing pretty good baseball,\u201d Quero said. \u201cPlaying hard every day and that\u2019s the mentality right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

That mindset doesn\u2019t change with Murakami out for a period of time. In Saturday\u2019s corresponding move, the Sox called up 2023 first-round draft pick Jacob Gonzalez from Triple-A Charlotte<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The infielder didn\u2019t get in Saturday\u2019s game, but had the chance to soak in the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really cool,\u201d Gonzalez said after the game. \u201cI\u2019ve been dreaming about this since I was a kid. I\u2019m happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ChicagoChicago White Sox’s Rikuu Nishida, right, celebrates with teammate Chase Meidroth, left, after hitting an RBI single during the seventh inning against the Detroit Tigers in Chicago, Saturday, May 30, 2026. (AP Photo\/Paul Beaty)<\/p>\n

His arrival at the park on Saturday was pushed back because of a flight delay. While waiting for the plane to take off, Gonzalez joked, \u201cI was just hoping they weren\u2019t going to change their minds. I was going to turn my phone off and stay on the flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday was his 24th birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably the best one so far,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez has been on a tear with the Knights, slashing .317\/.419\/.668 with 11 doubles, one triple, 19 home runs, 62 RBIs, 33 walks, 42 runs and a 1.087 OPS in 52 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe finally found a happy medium,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cBefore I was trying to do stuff that I wasn\u2019t comfortable with. Now, I\u2019m doing what I want to do and doing what they have told me and blended them so it\u2019s been really comfortable and working.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s largely played shortstop this year with Charlotte, but will be an option at first base for the Sox.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll play anywhere,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cI grew up playing everywhere and ready to help this team win some games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox still have plenty of power even with Munetaka Murakami unavailable because of a hamstring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[1000,5,138,49,2561,10448,53,458,17369,4,256,73,8567,396,2562],"class_list":["post-713218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-andrew-benintendi","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-edgar-quero","tag-jacob-gonzalez","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-rate-field","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116666581879462873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713218","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=713218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}