Yoán Moncada hits 2 of the Chicago White Sox’s 5 house runs in a 14-2 rout of the Oakland Athletics

Elvis Andrus hit the second pitch of Thursday’s sport towards the Oakland Athletics over the left-field wall for a leadoff homer.

Four pitches later, Yoán Moncada homered.

It was the primary of two homers for Moncada, who had a three-run blast within the second, because the Chicago White Sox clobbered the A’s 14-2 in entrance of 4,591 at Oakland Coliseum.

Moncada matched a career-high with 5 hits. He homered twice, singled twice, doubled and had 5 RBIs. Andrus drove in two, Eloy Jiménez hit a two-run homer and Romy Gonzalez had a three-run house run because the Sox opened the four-game collection with an offensive outburst.

The 14 runs are essentially the most the Sox ever have scored in 309 video games on the Coliseum, in keeping with the workforce. The 5 house runs matched essentially the most by the Sox in a sport on the ballpark (first completed on Sept. 27, 1981).

The Sox remained tied for second with the Minnesota Twins within the American League Central, 1½ video games behind the Cleveland Guardians.

The Sox led 6-0 after two innings, which was lots for Dylan Cease.

The Cy Young Award candidate allowed three hits in six scoreless innings in his first begin since coming within one out of a no-hitter Saturday against the Twins.

Cease struck out 9 and walked two to enhance to 14-6. His third strikeout, Cristian Pache to finish the second, was Cease’s 2 hundredth of the season.

It’s his second straight season with at the least 200 strikeouts. He’s the seventh pitcher in franchise historical past with a number of 200-strikeout seasons, becoming a member of Ed Walsh (5), Chris Sale (4), Lucas Giolito (2), Javier Vázquez (2), Tom Bradley (2) and Gary Peters (2), in keeping with the Sox.

The Sox scored 13 runs, 4 within the first, in help of Cease’s one-hitter towards the Twins.

The offense received going early once more Thursday with the back-to-back homers by Andrus and Moncada.

Andrus drove in Gonzalez with a single within the second. Moncada adopted with the three-run homer, making it 6-0.

Moncada singled and scored on Jiménez’s two-run homer within the fourth.

Gonzalez, who had 4 of the workforce’s 21 hits, doubled and scored on a single by Adam Engel within the fifth. Moncada added the RBI double later within the inning.

Gonzalez hit his three-run homer throughout the four-run sixth. Moncada’s fifth hit, a single, got here within the inning. He beforehand had five hits June 15 in Detroit.

The Sox scored 13 runs in that sport, one among thrice they’ve completed the feat this season. They set a season excessive Thursday with the 14 runs whereas profitable for the seventh time in 9 video games.

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