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.
Chicago out-hit Minnesota 8-5 to take three of four and win its fifth straight home series.
The White Sox have won nine of their past 10 games against Minnesota dating to last season.
After starting 4-1 on a 10-game road trip, the Twins were outscored 21-4 over the final two games at Rate Field.
Martin matched Cleveland’s 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.
Tristan Peters had three hits and an RBI for the White Sox while Colson Montgomery added two hits and an RBI. Montgomery’s run-scoring single in the first inning gave Chicago an early lead after Miguel Vargas walked and stole second with two out.
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’ 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.
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.
Martin retired the first seven batters he faced before Tristan Gray’s one-out single in the third. Gray doubled and scored on Ryan Kreidler groundout in the fifth.
Victor Caratini added an RBI sacrifice fly for Minnesota in the seventh.
Twins leadoff hitter Byron Buxton reached base on a walk and single.
Chicago’s Munetaka Murakami contributed an RBI single in the fourth. He had five hits — including three home runs — and five RBIs in the series.
–Field Level Media
