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The Minnesota Twins trounced the Chicago White Sox 10-2 on Friday night, led by Royce Lewis, who hit a home run and had a season-high four RBIs. The White Sox have now lost 18 straight games.
Since August 2021, when Baltimore dropped 19 games in a row, this losing streak is the longest in the majors. Throughout the contest, the White Sox only mustered three hits.
Byron Buxton and Willi Castro each went home runs in a six-run eighth inning. The White Sox’s Miguel Vargas hit a home run.
The White Sox have lost their current run of games and have been outscored 112-39. Since the All-Star break, they have scored three runs or fewer in 13 of their last 14 games. “Winning games and going out there is what
Lewis remarked, “I think he left a few pitches over the middle plate a little more than he wanted to.”
Lewis, a vital member of Minnesota’s squad when healthy, has not performed well in his previous six games following a 16-game absence owing to a right adductor strain. A right quad strain sustained in the season opening also caused him to miss 63 games earlier in the season.
In 31 games this season, he has 12 home runs and 25 RBIs; in his 101 career games, he has eight games with at least four RBIs.
Christian Vázquez led off the eighth inning with a two-run double, and then Buxton and Castro each drove in two more.
In 6 1/3 innings, Joe Ryan (7-7) gave up three hits and struck out seven, earning his first victory in four starts. The fourth-longest stretch in baseball has seen him toss at least five innings in twenty-five straight starts, including all 22 games this season.
Manager Rocco Baldelli stated, “I think it’s a nice, real step for Joe Ryan at this point in his career to sit here and say, `We expect him to go out and pitch like that.'” “Unless it was the case, I wouldn’t say that. That is true. Right now, he is going above and above in his work.
Before Vargas hit a two-run home run in the third inning, Ryan struck out the first four batters from Chicago.
