In a game heard on WHOW, Jonathan Cannon pitched into the sixth inning and the Chicago White Sox homered three times, snapping their 12-game losing streak with an 8-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.
Nicky Lopez, Andrew Vaughn and Dominic Fletcher went deep for the White Sox, who improved to 32-109 this season. They need to go 11-10 the rest of the way to avoid matching the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 New York Mets.
This was their third losing streak of at least 12 games this season - no team had ever done that since 1900 - but Lopez led off the game with a homer and the White Sox looked a lot sharper than they did while losing the first two games of this series by a combined 22-3.
Cannon (3-9) allowed a run and five hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Gunnar Henderson led off the bottom of the first with a homer that tied the game at 1, but the Orioles didn't score again.
Chicago took the lead for good when Vaughn hit a solo shot in the fourth and Fletcher added a two-run shot later in the inning.
Luis Robert Jr. hit an RBI double and Lenyn Sosa contributed a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Sosa hit an RBI single in the ninth and Fletcher brought home a run on a groundout.
Robert robbed a home run in the fifth inning before exiting in the sixth with right hamstring tightness.
The White Sox play at Boston on Friday night, with Davis Martin (0-3) starting for Chicago. The White Sox return to the WHOW airwaves Sunday because of Clinton Maroons football on Friday night and EIU football on Saturday.
