{"id":791189,"date":"2026-08-29T03:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791189\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:45:15","slug":"montgomery-hits-28th-homer-in-al-central-leading-chicago-white-soxs-7-4-win-over-minnesota-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791189\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery hits 28th homer in AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox&#8217;s 7-4 win over Minnesota Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colson Montgomery hit his 28th homer and Andrew Benintendi drove in two runs to help the AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 7-4 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago took advantage of shaky pitching early by the Twins. Montgomery&#8217;s three-run homer off starter Dean Kremer (2-5) in the first inning put the White Sox up 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins climbed back with first-inning homers by Brooks Lee and Kody Clemens. Lee also singled in the second to tie it at 4 before Chicago regained the lead on Benintendi&#8217;s double in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Both starting pitchers went just four innings. Chicago right-hander Luis Castillo allowed four runs on eight hits, while Kremer gave up six runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 in his outing.<\/p>\n<p>Reliever Grant Taylor (7-2) pitched 2 2\/3 shutout innings for Chicago for the victory. Bryan Hudson pitched the ninth for his sixth save.<\/p>\n<p>White Sox center fielder Tristan Peters ended his home run streak at five games, which matches a franchise record. He went 1 for 4 with a single.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins are 8-14 since the trade deadline as their wild-card hopes continue to fade. Minnesota is four games out of the final wild-card spot in the American League, with four teams ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s top prospect Walker Jenkins made his debut in the majors Friday, batting ninth and playing center field. He drew a nice ovation from the home crowd after his first at-bat, a deep flyout to the warning track. Walker got his first hit his next time up, singling to right in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Chicago RHP Erick Fedde (6-8, 4.18 ERA) was set to start Saturday against Minnesota RHP Bailey Ober (7-4, 4.49).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colson Montgomery hit his 28th homer and Andrew Benintendi drove in two runs to help the AL Central-leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,138,49,19,822,60,3190,4,10450,185,148],"class_list":["post-791189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-montgomery","tag-sports","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117176744231276966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791189","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=791189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}