City Series: White Sox flex their muscle with 5 home runs — 2 by Munetaka Murakami — to pummel Cubs 8-3
CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami hadn’t hit a home run since May 8. The first baseman got back in the swing of things on the City Series stage Saturday, connecting for two long balls as the White Sox pummeled the Cubs 8-3 in front of a sellout crowd of 38,795 at Rate Field. The Sox hammered five home runs while squaring the City Series at one game apiece.
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CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami hadn’t hit a home run since May 8 . The first baseman got back in the swing of things on the City Series stage Saturday, connecting for two long balls as the White Sox pummeled the Cubs 8-3 in front of a sellout crowd of 38,795 at Rate Field. The Sox hammered five home runs while squaring the City Series at one game apiece.
Third baseman Miguel Vargas had a three-run home run in the first inning, while Murakami and shortstop Colson Montgomery each hit solo shots in the third. Murakami added a two-run blast in the fifth for the first multi-home-run game of his career. Andrew Benintendi added a solo home run in the sixth.
“It’s just not one person,” Murakami said through an interpreter. “It’s the full lineup, one through nine. Feeding off each other.
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