CHICAGO (AP) — Garrett Crochet struck out a career-high 11 in six shutout innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 on Friday night for their third consecutive victory.
Taking advantage of a costly error on second baseman Gabriel Arias, Chicago improved to 8-6 since its ugly 3-22 start. Korey Lee and Paul DeJong hit back-to-back homers in the seventh, and Andrew Vaughn went deep in the eighth for his first of the season.
Crochet (3-4) allowed five hits and walked none in his second straight win. Jordan Leasure got four outs for his second save.
Crochet threw 72 of his 97 pitches for strikes. The big left-hander has a 1.59 ERA in three starts since a personal three-game losing streak.
“I know that I’ve got good stuff and I’ve been feeling really confident with it,” he said. “Just a matter of trying to get strike one, strike two and that’s why the strikeouts were able to get up tonight.”