Four, off the floor.
The White Sox hit four consecutive home runs during the fifth inning of a 7-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, the second time in franchise history the feat has been achieved.
Yoan Moncada started the flurry with a three-run home run to right field, followed by Yasmani Grandal on a blast to right and home runs to left by Jose Abreu and Eloy Jimenez at Guaranteed Rate Field.
All four homers came against Cardinals right-hander Roel Ramirez, who made his major league debut. Ramirez replaced Dakota Hudson to open the fifth with the Sox leading 1-0 on Jimenez’ RBI single in the first.
It was the 10th time in baseball history a team has hit four home runs in a row and second time for the Sox, who also hit four in a row on Aug. 14, 2008 against the Royals when Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez and Juan Uribe all went deep.
The Nationals hit four consecutive on June 9 of last season in a 5-2 victory over the Padres at Petco Park. Howie Kendrick, Trea Turner, Adam Eaton, and Anthony Rendon hit eighth-inning back-to-back-to-back-to-back homers against Craig Stammen.
The Sox’ offense had been quiet in the first two games of series, getting three hits in each of its losses in a doubleheader sweep at the hands of the Cardinals Saturday, and only two hits before collecting six in the six-run fifth Sunday.
It was the first homer of the season for Grandal, and Moncada was 0-for-12 in the last five games and 7-for-42 with one homer in his last 10 before his home run.
Jimenez has homered four times in his last five games and leads the team with seven. Moncada and Abreu have four each.
Moncada’s homer traveled 417 feet, Grandal’s 425 feet, Abreu’s 372 feet and Jimenez’ 402 feet.
Dallas Keuchel (3-2) pitched 5 2⁄3 innings of two-run ball. Both runs came in the sixth inning, when Keuchel was visited on the mound by manager Rick Renteria and trainer James Kruk. Keuchel stayed in after the visit but was replaced by Jimmy Cordero after allowing Matt Carpenter’s two-run single.
Corder, Matt Foster and Ross Detwiler combined to pitch 3 1⁄3 innings of scoreless relief as the Sox improved to 11-11.
