SEATTLE — Jose Abreu and Eloy Jimenez hit solo home runs, Yoan Moncada drove in four runs and the White Sox beat the Mariners 9-7 on Friday night.
The top half of the lineup dominated early in the game as the Sox snapped a two-game losing streak. The first five batters each reached base safely twice in the first four innings with Moncada getting three hits in that span.
Moncada’s run-scoring triple and Adam Engel’s solo home run put the Sox up 5-3 and chased starter Yusei Kikuchi (6-10) with two outs in the third. Moncada then cleared the bases with a double for an 8-3 lead after reliever Wade LeBlanc loaded them on two hits and a walk to start the fourth inning.
Shortstop Tim Anderson continued his run at the batting title as well. Anderson was 2-for-5 in the game with a double and an RBI single, and improved his average to .334.
The Mariners have lost eight of their last 10.
Kikuchi gave up a solo home run to Abreu in the first. His teammates, though, took advantage of two walks and a wild pitch with one out from Dylan Covey to build a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the inning. But Kikuchi reached 60 pitches on Engel’s third-inning home run and was done for the night.
Josh Osich (3-0) pitched 2⅔ innings for the win. He struck out three and allowed three hits.
Shed Long’s two-run single in the fourth and Daniel Vogelbach’s two-run pinch-hit double in the eighth made it 8-7. But Jimenez padded the lead with his 27th homer in the ninth and Alex Colome pitched the final 1⅓ innings for his sixth save.
The Sox stopped rookie Kyle Lewis’ run at the record books, holding him without a home run. Lewis was the second player in major league history to hit homers in each of his first three games. He did have a hit and an RBI, extending that streak into the fourth game of his career.
