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White Sox Outslug Braves

In a game heard on WHOW, Luis Robert Jr. homered to spark a six-run fourth inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Atlanta Braves 13-9 on Monday night.

Robert followed Andrew Benintendi's leadoff single against a struggling Spencer Strider with his 13th homer to put Chicago up 3-0. 

 

Mike Tauchman drove in two with a bases-loaded double, and Lenyn Sosa's two-out RBI single made it 7-0.

 

Brooks Baldwin hit his eighth home run, a leadoff shot in the third to give Chicago the lead. 

 

Sosa hit his 17th homer, a three-run drive off Austin Cox in the sixth for a 10-1 advantage. 

 

White Sox rookie RHP Shane Smith (3-7, 4.01 ERA) starts Tuesday opposite Braves RHP Bryce Elder (5-9, 5.89). Hear tonight's action on WHOW. 

Kyle Teel and Benintendi both had four of Chicago's 19 hits.

Yoendrys Gómez (3-1) allowed four runs in five innings for the win in his second career start. Grant Taylor pitched a scoreless ninth to close it out.

 

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