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04/27 22:29 CDT Benintendi hits 2nd home of game in 10th, White Sox beat Rays
8-7 for 5th win of season.
Benintendi hits 2nd home of game in 10th, White Sox beat Rays 8-7 for 5th win
of season.
By MATT CARLSON
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) --- Andrew Benintendi hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning
for his second homer of the game and the season, giving the Chicago White Sox
an 8-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.
Benintendi had three hits and six RBIs to help Chicago win its second straight
and for just the fifth time this season. Chicago's 5-22 start is its worst in
27 games. Baltimore started 3-24 in 1988.
Benintendi ended it by smacking the first pitch he saw from Phil Maton (0-2)
deep over the right-center wall for the first walk-off shot in his nine-year
career.
"I was just looking for something up in the zone, something to drive to the
outfield," Benintendi said, "and put a good swing on it.
"I know what's in the tank as far as what kind of power I have. It just starts
with hard contact and swinging at good pitches."
It was Benintendi's sixth career multihomer game and the six RBIs matched a
career high. The White Sox have won three straight at home, with a seven-game
slide on the road in-between.
"For us right now it's a day at a time when we're in the position we are,"
Benintendi said.
Automatic runner Curtis Mead scored from third on Deivi Garcia's (1-2) wild
pitch in the dirt in the top of the 10th to put Tampa Bay ahead 7-6.
Ben Sheets and Andrew Vaughn also drove in runs for Chicago.
Richie Palacios hit a two run drive and finished with three hits, but Tampa Bay
lost for the fifth time in six, and a second straight to Chicago.
"We're not doing well right now," Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. "We've got
to turn it around."
Tampa Bay's Austin Shenton hit his first career home run, a solo shot that
barely cleared the left-field wall, and and doubled in his 10th game in the
majors.
Ben Rortvedt went 3 for 3 and scored twice. He led off the eighth with a fly to
right that bounded of the top of the wall, but was first called a home run on
the field. After Rortvedt circled the bases and a crew-chief review, he was
awarded a single.
"Obviously, its their first series win, but it's just another series." Rortvedt
said. "These guys are a major league ballclub, and they're going to win their
games, but this was a pretty tough loss for us."
Randy Arozarena drove in two runs with a double in the sixth to tie the game
6-all.
Tommy Pham, who had two hits in his White Sox debut on Friday, added two
singles in this one. The 36-year-old outfielder raced home from third to beat
Amed Rosario's throw from second and score a go-head run in Chicago's three-run
fifth.
Chicago's Jonathan Cannon scuffled in his third major league start, allowing
four runs on eight hits in five innings.
Still, the 6-foot-6 right-hander exited with a 6-4 lead and was in line for his
first win. But Dominic Leone, the first of five Chicago relievers, allowed two
runs in the sixth on Palacio's double.
"Cannon, despite not having his best, best stuff, he competed his butt off,"
Chicago manager Pedro Grifol said.
Aaron Civale was tagged for six runs on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings in his
second straight rough outing.
The Rays took a 1-0 lead in the second on Jos Caballero's RBI single.
Palacio's third homer, a drive to right, upped it to 3-0 in the fourth.
Benintendi's first homer, just over the right-center wall, tied it 3 all in the
bottom half.
Shenton's first career shot, aided by a steady wind, put Tampa Bay back head
4-3 in the fifth.
Chicago took a 6-4 lead in the bottom half. Sheets' ground-rule double,
Vaughn's fielder's choice grounder and Benintendi's wind-blown pop single to
short center drove in the runs.
Arozarena's double tied it at 6 in the sixth.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Tampa Bay: OF Josh Lowe was nearing a return as from a right oblique strain,
but will remain on the IL with a new injury, right hamstring tightness. Lowe,
who has yet to play this season, is scheduled for an MRI on Monday. The
26-year-old broke out in 2023 with 20 homers, 83 RBIs and a .292 average. ...
INF Yandy Diaz was out of the lineup after being hit by a pitch on the left
hand Friday. X-rays were negative and he was available off the bench.
UP NEXT
Tampa Bay sends RHP Zack Littell (1-1, 3.33) to the mound against Chicago RHP
Erick Fedde (1-0, 2.73) on Sunday.
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