Murakami powers White Sox past Rockies at Guaranteed Rate Field

CHICAGO (Interstat) — Munetaka Murakami homered twice and drove in three runs, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 6-1 victory over the Colorado Rockies at Guaranteed Rate Field on Friday. Colorado scored its lone run in the first. Murakami went 3 for 4. Sean Burke earned the win, allowing one earned run on four hits over 5 1/3 innings, striking out seven and walking one. Grant Taylor worked two hitless innings, and Bryan Hudson and Hagen Smith also pitched scoreless relief. Kyle Teel drove in two runs with a sacrifice fly and a single. Tomoyuki Sugano took the loss for Colorado, yielding four earned runs on six hits in 6 2/3 innings with five strikeouts. TJ Rumfield homered and went 2 for 4 for the Rockies. Colorado managed four hits; Chicago had 10. The White Sox improved to 84-78, while Colorado dropped to 59-103. Burke improved to 11-7, and Sugano fell to 12-12. Attendance was 35,778, and the game took 2 hours, 31 minutes.