BOSTON (AP) — Andrew Vaughn hit a two-run homer, pinch-hitter Edgar Quero added a go-ahead, two-run single and the Chicago White Sox snapped a six-game losing streak with an 8-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox Sunday, ending their worst road start in team history.
Matt Thaiss added two-run shot for Chicago, which lost its first eight road games.
Wilyer Abreu hit a three-run homer for the Red Sox, who had their four-game win streak halted.
After pinch-hitter Brooks Baldwin’s run-scoring safety squeeze sliced it to 4-3 in the seventh, Quero delivered his single up the middle.
Coming off the worst start by a Red Sox pitcher in nearly 63 years when , Tanner Houck allowed Thaiss’ wind-aided two-run homer in the first inning before putting up zero runs over the next five.
Brandon Eisert (1-0) got five outs to earn his first major-league victory.
Red Sox reliever Zack Kelly (1-1) didn’t retire a batter and was charged with three runs.
Abreu’s shot into Chicago’s bullpen off Sean Burke made it 3-2 in the first.
The 25-year-old Burke, who grew up an about an hour away in Sutton, Massachusetts, gave up four runs, one earned, over five innings.
Key moment
Red Sox reliever , giving up Vaughn’s two-run homer in the eighth.
Key stat
Houck lowered his ERA from 9.16 after his initial four starts to 7.66.
Up next
RHP Jonathan Cannon (0-2, 4.42 ERA) is set to start for the White Sox against Red Sox RHP Walker Buehler (2-1, 5.23) on Monday morning with a scheduled 11:10 a.m. first pitch in Boston’s annual Patriots’ Day game.
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Ken Powtak, The Associated Press
