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Giolito (9-8), aided by a pair of double plays, faced the
minimum 21 batters over the first seven innings. He didn't allow
a hit until the fifth inning, when Luis Arraez led off with a
comebacker that ricocheted off the pitcher's lower right leg
toward third base for a single.
Giolito lost his shutout bid with one out in the eighth when
Miguel Sano lined his 19th homer of the season into the second
deck in left to make it 10-1. The right-hander allowed one run
on two hits and hit a batter over eight innings while striking
out eight.
Jimenez, who hit two home runs and had five RBIs in Chicago's
9-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Sunday night, went
2-for-4 and became the first White Sox player in franchise
history to have consecutive games with two homers and five or
more RBIs.
Tim Anderson went 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBIs and two
runs, Yoan Moncada homered and had two hits and Luis Robert,
playing for the first time since sustaining a right hip flexor
injury on May 2, also had two hits as Chicago improved to 13-4
this season against the Twins with its fourth straight victory
overall.
Chicago jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first two innings
against Twins right-hander Beau Burrows (0-1), who was making
his first major league start.
Anderson opened the scoring with his 12th homer of the season,
the 12th time in his career that he led off a game with a home
run. Cesar Hernandez followed with a walk and scored one out
later on Jimenez's 454-foot blast off the facing of the
restaurant above the batter's eye in center field.
The White Sox added another run later in the inning when first
baseman Sano dropped Robert's popup, which allowed Brian
Goodwin, who had doubled, to score.
Jimenez then made it 7-0 in the second inning with a three-run
homer down the left field line, driving in Anderson, who had
singled, and Hernandez, who had walked.
Robert added an RBI double in the fifth to make it 8-0, Goodwin
had a sacrifice fly in the seventh and Anderson made it 10-0 in
the eighth with an RBI single. Moncada ended the scoring with
his 10th homer of the season in the ninth.
--Field Level Media
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