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Junis (5-8), who was 0-3 in his past seven starts with a 5.31
ERA, allowed one run, five hits and two walks.
Nicky Lopez had two hits and drove in two runs, and Hunter
Dozier and Cheslor Cuthbert each had two hits and an RBI for the
Royals, who have won three of four coming out of the All-Star
break.
White Sox starter Lucas Giolito (11-4) allowed three runs and
seven hits in six innings. Giolito, who turned 25 on Sunday and
was coming off his first All-Star appearance last week, struck
out five and walked one.
Jon Jay went 4-for-4 for Chicago, which has lost four straight
after getting swept in Oakland over the weekend.
Catcher James McCann hit a solo homer off Junis in the sixth
inning to cut the White Sox's deficit to 2-1.
Kansas City got the run back in its half of the sixth on an
opposite-field RBI single to left by Lopez, scoring Dozier for
his second run of the game and a 3-1 lead.
Alex Gordon's run-scoring groundout in the seventh made it 4-1.
A throwing error by Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi in the
eighth inning cut Chicago's deficit to 4-2, but Kansas City
reliever Jake Diekman struck out Yolmer Sanchez with the bases
loaded to end the inning.
After the Royals tacked on another run in the eighth, Ian
Kennedy pitched the ninth for his 14th save.
Gordon and Dozier gave the Royals a 1-0 lead in the fourth with
back-to-back one-out doubles.
Dozier took third on a wild pitch with one out. Giolito nearly
escaped further damage after getting Soler out on a comebacker,
but Cuthbert grounded a 1-2 pitch through the right side to make
it 2-0.
The White Sox put their leadoff batter on base in the first two
innings, including Jay's double high off the center field wall
in the second, but Jay was stranded at second base.
--Field Level Media
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