Benintendi's tiebreaking 3-run homer in 9th lifts White Sox over Diamondbacks 4-1

PHOENIX (AP) — Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the ninth inning that lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1 on Thursday for their third win in four games. With the score 1-1, Chase Meidroth drew a four-pitch walk from Paul Sewald (0-3) and moved up on Tristan Peters’ sacrifice. Pinch-hitter Edgar Quero walked and Benintendi, who is hitting .216, followed by driving a 2-2 fastball 410 feet into the swimming pool area in right-center for his second homer this season. Grant Taylor (1-0) stranded runners at second and third by striking out Jose Fernandez to end the seventh, then worked around a leadoff single in the eighth to pitch 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Seranthony Domínguez pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save. Chicago, which had nine singles before Benintendii's homer, took two of three from the Diamondbacks, who lost a series for the first time since they were swept three games at the Los Angeles Dodgers opening the season. Munetaka Murakami’s five-game home run streak came to an end for the White Sox. He went 1 for 5 with a single and three strikeouts. Chicago's Davis Martin gave up on run and six hits in 6 1/3 innings, allowing Adrian Del Castillo's RBI double in the first. Arizona’s Michael Soroka allowed one run and seven hits in five innings. had a tying single in the third. Arizona’s singled in the fourth inning to extend his hitting streak to 21 games dating to last season. got his first big league hit, a lined single to left leading off the third.