CHICAGO (Interstat) — Luis Robert Jr. hit two home runs and drove in three runs, and the New York Mets beat the Chicago White Sox 10-5 on Saturday at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Robert went 2 for 5 with a two-run homer in the third inning and a solo shot in the seventh. Carson Benge finished 3 for 5 with a home run and two RBIs, and Bo Bichette also connected as the Mets collected 16 hits. The White Sox managed nine hits.

The Mets never trailed after the opening run. A.J. Ewing singled to start the game, and after Francisco Lindor flied out and Bichette struck out, Benge singled to left to score Ewing. Benge advanced to second on the throw, but Jared Young struck out to end the inning.

The White Sox answered in the second. Braden Montgomery homered to right field, his fifth of the season, tying the game at 1. Christian Scott settled in after that, striking out Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth to escape further trouble.

The Mets regained control in the third. Bichette led off with a home run to left, his 14th. Benge followed with a single, and Robert lifted a two-run homer to center field, giving the Mets a 4-1 lead. The White Sox chipped away in the bottom of the inning. Tristan Peters homered to right-center, his eighth. Drew Romo singled and later scored on Andrew Benintendi’s sacrifice fly, cutting the Mets’ lead to 4-3.

Scott allowed a two-out single to Munetaka Murakami and walked Miguel Vargas in that inning before Benintendi’s sacrifice fly, but he limited the damage. The Mets added to their lead in the fifth. Benge led off with a home run to right, his 16th. Jared Young doubled, and after Robert grounded out, Eric Wagaman singled to center to score Young. Wagaman advanced to second on the throw, and Marcus Semien singled to left to score Wagaman, making it 7-3.

The White Sox pulled within 7-4 in the bottom of the fifth. Romo was hit by a pitch, Sam Antonacci walked, and after a strikeout, Scott walked Miguel Vargas to load the bases. Andrew Benintendi struck out, but Montgomery drew a walk to force in Romo. Colson Montgomery struck out to end the inning.

Chicago moved closer in the sixth. Against Mets reliever Austin Warren, Meidroth singled, Tristan Peters walked, and Romo sacrificed them into scoring position. Antonacci grounded a single to third, scoring Meidroth and sending Peters to third. But Warren struck out Murakami and got Vargas to line out, preserving a 7-5 lead.

Robert restored the three-run cushion in the seventh. He homered to left off White Sox reliever Huascar Brazobán, his ninth of the season, and the Mets led 8-5. The Mets added insurance in the ninth. Young doubled to right, and Luis Torrens, pinch-hitting for Brett Baty, homered to right field, his eighth, scoring Young for a 10-5 lead.

Scott, the Mets’ starter, allowed four runs on five hits over 4.2 innings, striking out six. Warren, who entered in the fifth, earned the win with 1.2 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out three. Kodai Senga pitched a scoreless eighth with two strikeouts, and Dedniel Núñez worked a scoreless ninth with one strikeout.

White Sox starter Luis Castillo took the loss, falling to 4-10. Brazobán allowed one run on one hit over an inning of relief. The Mets improved to 59-74, while the White Sox dropped to 68-63.

The decisive sequence came in the fifth inning, when the Mets turned a one-run lead into a four-run advantage. Benge’s leadoff home run gave the Mets breathing room, and consecutive RBI singles by Wagaman and Semien extended the lead to four. The White Sox answered with two runs over the next two innings, but Robert’s seventh-inning homer provided the final cushion the Mets needed.

The attendance was 30,705, and the game lasted 3 hours, 23 minutes. The teams conclude their three-game series Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field. The Mets then return home to face Milwaukee on Tuesday, while the White Sox host Texas on Monday.

Interstat’s game simulator projected a 6-5 Mets victory. Interstat’s ELO system gave the White Sox a 52.40 percent probability to win. The Mets were installed as a -1.5 run favorite. The combined 15 runs went over the 8.5 over/under line.