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White Sox starter Dylan Cease (2-0) allowed
three runs (one earned) on three hits over five innings to pick
up the win. He walked two and struck out six. Reynaldo Lopez
struck out three of the four batters he faced to pick up his
second save.
Kenta Maeda (0-2), making his second start after missing the
entire 2022 season following Tommy John surgery, gave up four
runs on eight hits over six innings. He struck out three and
didn't walk a batter.
Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the third when Alberto mishandled
Nick Gordon's bases-loaded grounder for an error. Michael A.
Taylor, who had reached on a fielder's choice, scored.
The White Sox pounded out five hits in the fourth while taking a
4-1 lead.
Grandal tied it 1-1 with an RBI single, driving in Andrew
Benintendi, who had singled and advanced to second on a single
by Gavin Sheets. Alberto followed with a 390-foot line-drive
homer into the bleachers in left, his first of the season.
The Twins cut it to 4-2 in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI
single by Trevor Larnach, the first hit in 22 at-bats by
left-handed batters against Cease this season.
Minnesota took advantage of a pair of Chicago errors in the
fifth to make it 4-3.
Gordon reached base on an error by second baseman Elvis Andrus.
Gordon scored when Matt Wallner's two-out grounder went through
the legs of first baseman Sheets and down the right-field line,
allowing Gordon to score all the way from first.
Chicago shortstop Tim Anderson left the game in the sixth inning
with left knee soreness. Wallner landed on Anderson's left leg
diving into third base during a fourth-inning rundown.
Anderson, who went 0-for-3, was replaced in the lineup by Romy
Gonzalez, who entered at second base. Andrus moved to shortstop.
--Field Level Media
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