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Soler hits 2 HRs, again, as Royals beat White Sox 4-3

Jorge Soler hit two home runs for the second straight game and the Kansas City Royals extended their winning streak to six games with a 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.

 

Mike Minor allowed two runs on three hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out seven. 

 

Scott Barlow worked the final two innings and picked up his sixth save.

 

Dallas Keuchel (7-4) took the loss after surrendering three solo home runs. He allowed four runs on six hits over six innings. He walked one and struck out three.

 

Soler hit the first Keuchel pitch of the second inning for his 12th home run, and his fifth in the last six games. Soler's blast went 449 feet to dead center. In his next at-bat, Soler hit another home run, this one 413 feet to left. 

 

The White Sox got two runs in the sixth. Minor walked the lead-off batter, Seby Zavala. Zavala advanced to third on Tim Anderson's double to the wall in left. Both runners scored when Andrew Vaughn singled down the right-field line.

 

The White Sox got a run in the ninth when Adam Engel singled in Yoan Moncada.

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