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Royce Lewis hit a three-run homer to highlight a six-run second inning on Sunday as the Minnesota Twins sent the Chicago White Sox to their 20th straight loss with a 13-7 win in Minneapolis.
The White Sox are the seventh team in modern baseball history to lose 20 straight games.
Willi Castro had three hits and three RBIs and Jose Miranda had three hits and scored twice for the Twins, who have won four games in a row.
Minnesota starter Simeon Woods Richardson allowed three runs and six hits in four innings. He struck out six and walked three.
Cole Sands (5-1) threw two innings of scoreless relief to earn the win.
Andrew Benintendi homered, while Andrew Vaughn had three hits, two RBIs and two runs scored for Chicago. Brooks Baldwin also had three hits and scored twice.
White Sox starter Chris Flexen (2-11) allowed eight runs (six earned) and seven hits in 1 2/3 innings. He struck out three and walked three.
After the visitors stranded the bases loaded in the first inning, the Twins loaded the bases with one out in their half of the first.
Minnesota went up 1-0 on Baldwin’s fielding error at second and took a 2-0 lead on Miranda’s RBI single.
Castro’s double drove in the first run of the second inning to make it 3-0. Trevor Larnach then plated Castro with a single to center.
Following another double by Byron Buxton, Lewis hit an opposite-field homer to right to stretch the lead to 7-0.
Flexen departed after giving up a two-out single to Miranda. Sammy Peralta entered and gave up an RBI triple to Matt Wallner to make it 8-0.
Chicago scored twice in the third on an RBI double by Vaughn and a run-scoring single by Lenyn Sosa.
Baldwin delivered an RBI single in the fourth to trim the deficit to 8-3, and Benintendi blasted a two-run homer in the seventh to make it 8-5.
Minnesota tacked on two more runs in the seventh on a passed ball and a sacrifice fly.
The White Sox drew within 10-7 on consecutive RBI doubles by Luis Robert Jr. and Vaughn.
Chicago issued its ninth walk of the game with the bases loaded in the eighth to extend the Twins’ lead to 11-7. Castro then lined a two-run single to close the scoring.
Buxton exited the game after he crashed into the center field fence making the final out of the sixth inning.
–Field Level Media
