secured at least a series victory<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s their ninth series victory of 2025, matching last year\u2019s mark according to the Sox.<\/p>\n
The Sox (30-59) had a season-high 15 hits, including a 464-foot, two-run home run by Michael A. Taylor in the ninth.<\/p>\n
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Chicago White Sox third base coach Justin Jirschele, left, congratulates Michael A. Taylor, right, who circles the bases after hitting a two-run home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Ryan Rolison in the ninth inning of a baseball game Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seemed like everybody was feeling good,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cFor me, even before the game started this game was going to be about energy and focus the second day after we arrived really late (to Denver from Los Angeles). Hits give you energy, but even before that our guys were in a really good place.\u201d<\/p>\n
The production started in the first inning. Brooks Baldwin drove in Sosa with a two-out double. Baldwin then scored on Montgomery\u2019s triple. Montgomery became the second Sox player since 2000 to triple for their first major-league hit. He joined Tyler Saldano, who accomplished the feat on July 11, 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe put some really good swings on pitches, quality at-bats,\u201d Venable said. \u201cHappy that he got his first knock.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rockies scored twice in the bottom of the first, but the Sox responded with three in the second inning in the form of an RBI single by Tauchman and the home run by Sosa. All three runs came with two outs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe success today was just being patient as I\u2019ve been the last couple of weeks,\u201d Sosa said through an interpreter. \u201cI was able to get a pitch that I wanted to hit.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to slow the game down, be calm and when you have your pitch, be aggressive with your pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n
An RBI single by Josh Rojas \u2014 yes, with two outs \u2014 in the fifth stretched the lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n
Sox starter Jonathan Cannon allowed two runs on eight hits with one strikeout and two walks in 5 1\/3 innings for the win.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The Rockies were) really aggressive today, swung at a lot of pitches early in the count,\u201d Cannon said. \u201cWe were able to take advantage of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He displayed timely execution in the fifth after the Rockies placed runners on second and third with no outs. Hunter Goodman lined out to Montgomery, Jordan Beck popped out to Sosa at second base and Thairo Estrada grounded out to Montgomery.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust knowing they were swinging from the jump, put a little more emphasis on the execution of the pitch earlier in the count,\u201d Cannon said. \u201cTough place to pitch, but I thought we did a good job of navigating around everything and getting out of some jams when we needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reliever Jordan Leasure induced inning-ending double plays in the sixth and seventh.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a great job by him,\u201d Venable said.<\/p>\n
The Sox weren\u2019t done offensively.<\/p>\n
Sosa drove in two more with a single in the eighth and Taylor added the lengthy two-run home run \u2014 which came with two outs in the ninth. It was the longest home run of the season for a Sox player.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust really proud of Michael, we\u2019ve asked a lot of him,\u201d Venable said. \u201cJust an amazing job by him on both sides of the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor was one of five Sox players with a multi-hit game.<\/p>\n
\u201cOffensively, it came from everywhere,\u201d Venable said. \u201cThe two-out hitting was great. There was damage, good job of plate discipline. Just an overall great day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Colson Montgomery started thinking triple as soon as the ball hit the wall. The Chicago White…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1274,1283,29987,32528,5386,1818,33505,27351,32073,1822,13250],"class_list":{"0":"post-42662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-colson-montgomery","12":"tag-coors-field","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-jonathan-cannon","16":"tag-lenyn-sosa","17":"tag-michael-a-taylor","18":"tag-mlb-baseball","19":"tag-will-venable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114804806366619408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}