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Down 0-2 in the count, McCann slugged a slider
from Houston reliever Ryan Pressly (2-3) deep to right-center
field, landing in the Astros' bullpen for his 13th homer.
Tim Anderson went 4-for-5 with two doubles to lead Chicago's
15-hit attack. McCann and Eloy Jimenez (solo homer) collected
two hits.
Jose Abreu and Welington Castillo each notched two hits and two
RBIs for the White Sox, who won the season series 4-3 from
Houston and took the home series 2-1.
Alex Colome (4-2) tossed 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Michael Brantley was 4-for-5 with two doubles and two runs for
Houston. Yuli Gurriel went 3-for-4 with two solo homers, three
RBIs and a walk, and Jose Altuve recorded three hits, three runs
and a two-run homer. Alex Bregman drove in three runs.
Houston used doubles by Brantley and Bregman in the first inning
to grab a 1-0 lead against starter Ross Detwiler.
Gurriel hooked a fastball from Detwiler down the left field
line, and his first solo shot bounced off the foul pole for a
2-0 lead in the second.
The White Sox answered immediately when Castillo doubled in
Jimenez, who reached on Gurriel's fielding error, to make it
2-1.
Houston committed its second error of the inning when pitcher
Wade Miley flipped Yolmer Sanchez's suicide squeeze bunt over
catcher Robinson Chirinos, and Adam Engel scored from second on
the throwing error for a 3-2 lead.
Anderson added an RBI single as the White Sox plated four
unearned runs, but RBI groundouts by Bregman and Yordan Alvarez
tied it 4-4 in the third.
Castillo knocked in his second run in the third, and a
run-scoring double play made it 6-4. Abreu's sacrifice fly added
to the lead in the fourth.
Gurriel hit his 25th homer to lead off the sixth -- his third
multi-homer game -- to give him 20 round-trippers in his last 40
games, but Abreu's RBI single in the bottom half made it 8-5.
Bregman and Gurriel added RBI singles in the seventh, but pinch
hitter Aledmys Diaz grounded into a double play with the bases
loaded to keep it 8-7.
Chicago pushed the lead to 9-7 on Jimenez's 20th homer, a
towering solo shot to center, in the bottom of the seventh.
Altuve's two-run homer to left, his 22nd, tied it 9-9 in the
eighth.
--Field Level Media
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