Benintendi’s Two Homers Propel White Sox to 12-3 Rout of Twins

MINNEAPOLIS - Andrew Benintendi delivered a monster performance, belting two homers and driving in five runs as the Chicago White Sox exploded for 12 hits in a 12-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on Tuesday night.

Benintendi opened the scoring with a solo shot in the second inning and added a three-run blast in the eighth, marking his 17th and 18th home runs of the season. After falling behind 3-1, the White Sox rallied for four runs in the fifth inning, highlighted by Bryan Ramos’s run-scoring double off the right-center-field wall, knotting the game at 3-3.

Davis Martin (6-9) picked up the win, allowing three runs on six hits over six innings while striking out four and walking three. The South Siders tacked on two more in the sixth on RBI singles by Benintendi and Brooks Baldwin, and punctuated the scoring with back-to-back homers from Kyle Teel and Lenyn Sosa in the seventh against reliever Thomas Hatch. Chicago’s barrage continued with three runs in the eighth before closing the scoring in the ninth.

For Minnesota, Simeon Woods Richardson surrendered five earned runs in 5⅓ innings, exiting after a pair of long balls in the late innings. Byron Buxton supplied the lone highlight for the Twins with a first-inning triple and scored on Trevor Larnach’s single. The loss dropped Minnesota further in the AL Central standings as Chicago snapped a four-game losing skid in Minneapolis.