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Los Angeles played without Shohei Ohtani, who was sidelined by
left knee inflammation. Ohtani, who is batting .400 (8 for 20)
with three homers and seven RBIs in his last five games, is day
to day.
Santiago Espinal, who subbed for Ohtani at designated hitter,
drove in two runs on an early single. Roki Sasaki (3-4) allowed
seven runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings for the NL West
leaders.
Chicago sent 11 batters to the plate while scoring seven times
in the fifth, delighting a sellout crowd of 37,882 at Rate
Field.
Vargas' opposite-field drive off the wall in right-center lifted
the White Sox to a 3-2 lead. Back-to-back walks for Colson
Montgomery and Braden Montgomery produced another run.
Meidroth then greeted Blake Treinen with a two-run single. One
batter later, Tristan Peters tacked on a two-run triple for the
surprising AL Central leaders.
Meidroth is batting .340 (16 for 47) during a 12-game hitting
streak. He has reached base safely in 22 straight games.
Vargas had three hits against his former team. The infielder was
traded from the Dodgers to the White Sox in July 2024.
Sasaki struck out four and walked three. The Japanese
right-hander went 2-0 with a 1.48 ERA in his previous four
starts.
Up next
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (6-4, 2.68 ERA) starts for the Dodgers on
Saturday, and fellow right-hander Sean Burke (3-3, 3.88 ERA)
takes the mound for the White Sox.
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