Lenyn Sosa delivered a bases-clearing double and Joshua Palacios cracked a two-run homer as the Chicago White Sox rallied for a 10-5 victory over the visiting Texas Rangers on Saturday.
Mike Tauchman homered and drove in two and Andrew Benintendi slashed a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth for the White Sox, who can pull off their first series sweep of the season on Sunday. Starter Bryse Wilson went four innings and allowed four runs (two earned) on five hits while striking out four and walking two. Mike Vasil (3-2) threw three scoreless innings in relief.
Jack Leiter threw five innings of six-hit, two-run ball for Texas — walking five and striking out three — before giving way to four relievers who combined to allow eight runs across three innings. Hoby Milner (1-1) surrendered three runs (two earned) without getting any outs in the sixth.
Josh Smith’s RBI double gave Texas a 1-0 lead in the first. The Rangers tacked on in the fourth when Joc Pederson was hit in the hand by a pitch, Jonah Heim singled and Marcus Semien produced a sacrifice fly to drive in Pederson, who did not return to the game due to a fractured right hand. Heim scored when Palacios dropped a routine fly ball in left, allowing the Rangers to take a 3-0 advantage.
Luis Robert Jr. doubled to lead off the fourth and Palacios connected on his third homer of the year to cut the deficit to 3-2.
Wyatt Langford singled in the fifth and Josh Jung reached on third baseman Josh Rojas’ throwing error. Wilson left in favor of Vasil, who allowed Kyle Higashioka’s RBI single to push Texas’ lead to 4-2.
Milner relieved Leiter in the sixth and started by giving up a triple to Austin Slater. That was followed by a Jung error and a run-scoring fielder’s choice by Tauchman. Jacob Webb entered for Milner and allowed Benintendi’s two-run double that gave the White Sox a 5-4 lead. Robert singled and Matt Thaiss walked to load the bases before Sosa drove in three with a double to left to make it a six-run inning and an 8-4 lead.
Robert added another Chicago run in the seventh with an RBI double off Texas reliever Caleb Boushley.
Texas got the lone run back in the top of the eighth, as Adolis Garcia launched his seventh homer of the year off newly inserted reliever Miguel Castro. After Tauchman answered with his first home run of the season in the bottom of the eighth, Brandon Eisert worked a perfect ninth for the White Sox.
–Field Level Media
