Luis Robert homered twice, Dylan Cease tied a career-high with 11 strikeouts and the Chicago White Sox pounded the Chicago Cubs 13-1 on Sunday.
Eloy Jimenez, Yasmani Grandal and Brian Goodwin also connected for the White Sox, who went 5-1 against the Cubs this year. Robert, Jimenez and Goodwin each drove in three runs.
White Sox slugger Jose Abreu hit a two-run double in a seven-run fifth to get to 101 RBIs with 29 games left. The reigning AL MVP drove in a career-high 123 runs in 2019.
Jimenez and Cease, who were acquired from the Cubs as part of a five-player trade for left-hander Jose Quintana on July 13, 2017, continued to haunt their former organization.
After Abreu's two-out double over the head of Rafael Ortega in center field, Jimenez chased Kyle Hendricks (14-6) with a three-run homer to right that lifted the White Sox to an 8-1 lead.
Jimenez is batting .372 (16 for 43) with six homers and 14 RBIs in 13 games against the Cubs.
Cease (11-6) allowed one run and four hits in six innings. The right-hander posted a 4-0 record and a 2.68 ERA in six starts in August.
Cease is 2-0 with 21 strikeouts in his last two starts against the Cubs.
Hendricks allowed a career-high nine runs against Milwaukee on Aug. 12.
Frank Schwindel homered for the Cubs in the fourth. He has hit safely in 21 of 26 games since joining the team on July 30.
Cubs first baseman Alfonso Rivas made his major league debut, hitting a single and double in his first two at-bats.
Robert is batting .382 with five homers in 15 games since returning from the injured list Aug. 9.
Goodwin hit an opposite-field drive to left for a two-run homer in the second. Grandal went deep in the fifth, connecting for his third homer in as many games since returning from the IL Friday.
The Sox scored 30 runs in the three-game series despite getting blanked Saturday by Alec Mills and Codi Heuer.
Zach Davies (6-10, 5.00 ERA) starts Tuesday night in the opener of a two-game series at Minnesota.
White Sox RHP Lucas Giolito (9-9, 3.68 ERA) starts Tuesday night at home against Pittsburgh. Giolito threw a no-hitter against the Pirates on Aug. 25, 2020.
