White Sox rally past Red Sox for first road win this season

Edgar Quero and Andrew Vaughn each drove in two runs as the visiting Chicago White Sox scored six runs over the final three innings to rally for an 8-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday afternoon.

Vaughn highlighted his 2-for-5 performance with a two-run home run in the eighth, helping the White Sox break a five-game losing streak and 0-7 start on the road this season. The White Sox also won when trailing after six innings for the first time since the 2023 season -- as they went 0-79 when trailing after six innings in 2024.

Chicago's Matt Thaiss went deep in the first inning as part of a three-hit day while Luis Robert Jr. singled and scored twice. Brandon Eisert (1-0) pitched 1 2/3 innings in relief of Massachusetts native Sean Burke to nab the win.

Wilyer Abreu hit a three-run homer and Kristian Campbell went 2-for-4 with a double for Boston, which had won three straight and four of five.

The White Sox flipped the score during a three-run seventh, loading the bases with nobody out following Lenyn Sosa's leadoff single and two hit batsmen by Boston reliever Zack Kelly (1-1).

After Justin Wilson came out of Boston's bullpen, Brooks Baldwin's sacrifice bunt plated a run and Quero's pinch-hit, two-run single through the drawn-in infield put Chicago back in the lead at 5-4.

In the eighth, Robert ripped a leadoff single and Vaughn crushed a two-run homer over the Green Monster in left-center against Boston's Liam Hendriks, who made his first major league appearance since June 2023 following Tommy John surgery.

Baldwin hit a one-out single and scored a ninth-inning insurance run when Thaiss was hit by a pitch with the bases full.

The visitors tagged Boston starter Tanner Houck with a pair of two-out runs in the first. After Robert drew a walk, Thaiss skied a two-run shot that scraped over the right-field wall.

The Red Sox answered quickly with a three-run spot in the latter half of the inning. After Rafael Devers and Alex Bregman reached base on consecutive errors, Abreu deposited a three-run homer into the right-field bullpen.

Two-out offense helped Boston extend its lead to 4-2 in the second. Blake Sabol knocked a double into the right-field corner before scoring on Jarren Duran's knock through the right side. Burke walked Devers and hit Bregman, but stranded the bases loaded to keep the game close.

Houck settled in to finish six innings of two-run, three-hit ball with seven strikeouts. The Boston righty did not allow a hit after the second, retiring the final five batters he faced.

It was a similar finish for Burke, who allowed just two hits over the last three of his five innings.

--Field Level Media