White Sox explode offensively for 17 hits and beat Angels

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Josh Harrison and Luis Robert hit two-run homers during Chicago’s five-run fifth inning, and the White Sox pounded out 17 hits in an 11-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.

José Abreu and Yoán Moncada had RBI doubles during a five-run seventh for the White Sox, who rallied from an early three-run deficit with multi-hit games from seven batters to win for only the second time in seven games.

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Chicago White Sox's Luis Robert is congratulated for his two-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Anaheim, Calif.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

"You're down three, and I think everybody was collectively saying, ‘We’re not doing this to (starter) Johnny (Cueto) again," Chicago manager Tony La Russa said. "Our guys were relentless. Shows what we can do."

Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani hit back-to-back homers in the third inning for Los Angeles, which has lost five of eight on its brawl-marred homestand. Ohtani went 3 for 3 with a walk, two doubles and two RBIs on the night before his next mound start.

Cueto (2-4) recovered from yielding three homers in a shaky third to pitch six innings of seven-hit ball.

"I told them, ‘Let’s hit homers,'" Cueto said of his dugout conversations with his teammates. "Let's put the ball in the air, because it's carrying today. Those homers got me going, and then I was able to execute."

Robert's majestic 448-foot shot off Oliver Ortega (1-3) highlighted Chicago's dismantling of the Halos' perpetually poor pitching staff. Robert, Tim Anderson and Abreu all had three hits, and Harrison