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Chicago has won back-to-back games for the
first time this season on the heels of a 10-game losing streak.
Jimmy Lambert (2-1) earned the victory, striking out two in a
perfect 10th inning. White Sox pitching limited Minnesota to
three hits.
Trevor Larnach gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead with a sixth-inning
sacrifice fly. The White Sox responded one inning later, as Eloy
Jimenez connected against reliever Jorge Lopez for a go-ahead,
two-run homer to left-center.
The lead was short-lived, though, as Nick Gordon led off the
eighth with a pinch-hit solo homer against Chicago's Alex Colome.
It was the season debut for Colome, who spent 2019-20 with the
White Sox and the following season with the Twins before
pitching for the Colorado Rockies last year.
White Sox starter Michael Kopech overcame spotty control to
pitch six innings of one-run, one-hit ball. The right-hander,
who walked five and struck out seven, held the Twins hitless
until Byron Buxton grounded a single past a diving Anderson at
shortstop with one out in the sixth.
Benintendi robbed Carlos Correa of a solo home run to end the
first inning, leaping over the left field wall after Kopech had
fanned the first two hitters of the game.
Aiming for his sixth win in as many starts to open the season,
Twins righty Joe Ryan took a no-decision after yielding one hit
and two walks in six scoreless innings. He struck out seven.
Ryan retired 11 consecutive White Sox after a two-out walk to
Yasmani Grandal in the second. The free pass followed the only
hit Ryan allowed, a Gavin Sheets single.
Anderson, who returned from the injured list to take his
familiar leadoff spot for Chicago, snapped the streak by working
a 12-pitch walk with one out in the sixth. Anderson had been
sidelined since spraining his left knee during an April 10 win
at Minnesota.
--Field Level Media
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