Tyler O’Neill homers twice and Red Sox send White Sox to 111th loss
BOSTON (AP) — Tyler O’Neill homered twice for the Boston Red Sox in a 7-5 win Saturday night that sent the Chicago White Sox to their 111th loss.
Chicago wasted a Andrew Vaughn’s two-run homer in the first, trailed 7-2 by the fifth and lost its 19th consecutive series.
The White Sox (32-111) are nine defeats shy of tying the 1962 New York Mets for the most losses since 1900 and are on pace to finish 36-126. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders hold the loss record at 20-134. Chicago has lost 14 of its last 15 games and 44 of 49.
Rob Refsnyder hit an RBI grounder and O’Neill put Boston ahead with a two-run homer in the four-run first off Garrett Crochet (6-11), who dropped to 0-6 in 15 starts since beating Boston on June 7.
O’Neill cleared the Green Monster and hit the ball out of Fenway Park off Enyel De Los Santos in the fifth for his 27th home run this season. It was his 11th career multihomer game, his sixth this year.
Boston (72-70) won its second straight game after a five-game losing streak and trails Minnesota (76-66) for the AL’s final wild card berth.
Trevor Story went 1 for 4 with an RBI single in his first game since April 5 after recovering from a shoulder injury that required surgery and caused him to miss 133 games.
