White Sox defeat Angels 5-3 in the Drew Romo Game

Drew Romo launched his first two career homers in Chicago’s second straight win. | (Getty Images) Davis Martin and the White Sox (13-17) picked up a sound win over the Los Angeles (12-19), earning Martin his fourth win of the season and the team finally taking a series win at home. The bullpen was nearly spotless, the offense mashed two home runs off one of the game’s best pitchers, and Drew Romo had himself a night with his first two career homers — one from each side of the plate.

Prior to tonight’s game, righthander José Soriano had only given up one run in his six starts (37 2/3 innings), and the Chicago White Sox did what seemingly no other team could do: score more than one tally against him. In fact, the Good Guys scored three on six hits, two of which were home runs — a solo shot from Colson Montgomery and a two-run bomb from Romo, this one from the left side. Soriano came into Tuesday’s game, surrendering just one extra-base hit (a double), and left with two South Side deep balls to sour his start.

He tossed a clean first inning, but Montgomery clearly didn’t care about the Cy Young hype, as Colson smoked one over the right field fence in the bottom of the second to give the White Sox a one-run lead, and hand Soriano his second earned run of the season. For the White Sox, Martin was his usual self: consistent and efficient. Tonight, he was more effective than the best pitcher in baseball, allowing one run on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings, walking one batter to maintain his low walk rate, and striking out seven.

The one run that the Angels scored off of Martin came in the top of the fourth after Nolan Schanuel ripped a one-out double to put himself into scoring position, and was subsequently driven in on a single from Jo Adell to tie the game up at one. Thankfully, Martin would be back on the hook for the win as the Good Guys stole the lead back in the bottom of the fourth when Romo smashed a two-run, line-drive bomb out to right for the first home run of his major league career, 3-1. Soriano left after the fifth inning and ultimately took the loss.