White Sox score five in eighth to rout Twins 10‑1
CHICAGO (Interstat) — Hagen Smith threw three shutout innings in relief and Sam Antonacci drove in two runs as the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 10-1 on Sunday, Sept. 6, at Guaranteed Rate Field.
The White Sox took the lead in the fifth on Munetaka Murakami’s RBI single, then padded it in the sixth when Antonacci doubled in two runs and later scored on Randal Grichuk’s single. Brooks Lee hit a solo homer in the seventh for Minnesota, but Chicago answered with a bases-loaded walk to Miguel Vargas in the bottom half. In the eighth, Grichuk homered, Tristan Peters hit a ground-rule double to drive in a run, and Kyle Teel hit a three-run homer.
Smith (3-1) allowed no hits over three innings with four strikeouts. Teel finished with three RBIs, Antonacci went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Peters was 3-for-5. The White Sox finished with 12 hits; the Twins had four. Bailey Ober (7-5) took the loss, allowing one earned run over 4 1/3 innings with six strikeouts. Attendance was 32,024 and the game lasted 2:56. The White Sox improved to 75-68; Minnesota fell to 68-75.