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04/23 17:40 CDT Benintendi's tiebreaking 3-run homer in 9th lifts White Sox
over Diamondbacks 4-1
Benintendi's tiebreaking 3-run homer in 9th lifts White Sox over Diamondbacks
4-1
By JACK THOMPSON
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) --- Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the
ninth inning that lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Arizona Diamondbacks
4-1 on Thursday for their third win in four games.
With the score 1-1, Chase Meidroth drew a four-pitch walk from Paul Sewald
(0-3) and moved up on Tristan Peters' sacrifice. Pinch-hitter Edgar Quero
walked and Benintendi, who is hitting .216, followed by driving a 2-2 fastball
410 feet into the swimming pool area in right-center for his second homer this
season.
Grant Taylor (1-0) stranded runners at second and third by striking out Jose
Fernandez to end the seventh, then worked around a leadoff single in the eighth
to pitch 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Seranthony Domnguez pitched a perfect ninth
for his fifth save.
Chicago, which had nine singles before Benintendii's homer, took two of three
from the Diamondbacks, who lost a series for the first time since they were
swept three games at the Los Angeles Dodgers opening the season.
Munetaka Murakami's five-game home run streak came to an end for the White Sox.
He went 1 for 5 with a single and three strikeouts.
Chicago's Davis Martin gave up on run and six hits in 6 1/3 innings, allowing
Adrian Del Castillo's RBI double in the first. Arizona's Michael Soroka allowed
one run and seven hits in five innings. Miguel Vargas had a tying single in the
third.
Arizona's Ildemaro Vargas singled in the fourth inning to extend his hitting
streak to 21 games dating to last season. Aramis Garcia got his first big
league hit, a lined single to left leading off the third.
Up next
White Sox: RHP Erick Fedde (0-3, 3.10) starts a homestand opener Friday against
Washington RHP Miles Mikolas (0-3, 9.15).
Diamondbacks: LHP Zac Gallen (1-1, 3.51) will be on the mound Saturday in the
opener of a two-game series against San Diego in Mexico City.
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