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Ryan Jeffers also hit a home run and Edouard
Julien had a single, two walks and two runs for Minnesota, which
improved to 6-2 since the All-Star break.
Joe Ryan (9-6) picked up his second win in his past 10 starts,
allowing four runs on seven hits and a walk over six innings
while striking out 10, matching his season high.
Andrew Benintendi hit a home run and had two hits and Yasmani
Grandal also homered for Chicago, which took its third loss in
four games. Eloy Jimenez and Elvis Andrus each added a double, a
single and a run for the White Sox.
Lance Lynn (6-9) gave up nine runs, six earned, on eight hits
and three walks over 6 2/3 innings. He struck out six and
allowed four home runs to increase his major-league-leading
total to 28.
Chicago took the lead when Benintendi clobbered the first pitch
of the game 396 feet into the second deck in right for his
second homer of the season.
Minnesota answered with five runs in the bottom of the first.
Julien singled with one out to extend his hitting streak to nine
games and then scored on Kirilloff's eighth home run of the
season.
Max Kepler followed with an infield single and went to second on
a walk to Matt Wallner. Buxton then snapped an 0-for-26 streak
with a 427-foot homer deep into the bullpen in left-center.
The Twins extended their lead to 7-1 in the fourth on solo home
runs by Buxton, his 17th, and Jeffers, his fifth.
The White Sox made it 7-2 in the fifth when Andrus doubled off
the wall in left-center and scored on a single by Tim Anderson.
Chicago cut it to 7-4 in the sixth on Grandal's two-run home
run, a 394-foot drive into the plaza in right. The Twins
extended the lead back to five runs in the seventh on a two-run
double by Kirilloff.
--Field Level Media
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