Minnesota 6, Chi. White Sox 1
When: 2:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Where: Rate Field, Chicago, Illinois
Temperature:
61°
Umpires:
Home -
John Libka, 1B -
Sean Barber, 2B -
James Hoye, 3B -
D.J. Reyburn
Attendance:
10193
By Field Level Media
Byron Buxton homered, doubled and drove in two runs and Harrison Bader hit a three-run homer to lead the visiting Minnesota Twins to a 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday in a rain-delayed rubber game of their three-game series.
Pablo Lopez (1-1) picked up the win, allowing one run on four hits over seven sharp innings. He walked one and struck out five. Jhoan Duran and Danny Coulombe each threw a scoreless inning of relief.
Buxton, Carlos Correa - who snapped a season-opening 0-for-18 streak - and Ty France each had two hits for Minnesota, which won its second straight game following an 0-4 start.
Brooks Baldwin homered for Chicago, which lost for the fourth time in five games. Sean Burke (1-1) picked up the loss, allowing six runs on seven hits over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out one and hit a batter.
Following a three-hour, 20-minute rain delay before the first pitch, Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Buxton drilled a 446-foot home run to left-center. It was Buxton's 22nd career homer against the White Sox, his most against any team.
The Twins extended the lead to 4-0 in the fourth on Bader's third home run of the season, a two-out line drive into the left field bullpen that drove in France, who had singled, and Willi Castro, who was hit by a pitch.
Minnesota parlayed three doubles into two more runs in the fifth to make it 6-0. Correa lined a one-out double down the left field line, then scored on Buxton's bloop double to shallow center past a diving Travis Jankowski. One out later, France doubled down the line in left to drive in Buxton.
Baldwin broke up the shutout in the seventh with a home run to right-center, his first of the season and third of his career.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Minnesota |
|
Chi. White Sox |
Pablo Lopez
|
Player |
Sean Burke
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
7.0 |
IP |
4.1 |
5 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
4 |
Hits |
7 |
1.29 |
ERA |
12.46 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Minnesota
|
8 |
2 |
17 |
.229 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Chi. White Sox
|
6 |
1 |
9 |
.176 |
12 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |