Andrew Benintendi described Sunday as “the first day in a while I squared up a few balls.” He hit two home runs in the Chicago White Sox’s loss.

The White Sox lost two of three to the Cubs over the weekend. After winning the series opener Friday, 12-5, the Sox stumbled Saturday and Sunday to rack up an AL-leading 67th and 68th losses of the campaign. They trail the Tigers by 22.5 games in the American League Central.

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On Sunday, the White Sox announced they have promoted him to the Double-A Birmingham Barons. Montgomery will likely make his first appearance with the team on Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. CT against the Rocket City Trash Pandas at Toyota Field in Madison, Ala.

Chicago White Sox center fielder Luis Robert Jr. has had two bad seasons in a row, distancing himself from his brilliant All-Star campaign in 2023. But he's coming to the end of a six-year, $50 million extension, so the White Sox are likely to move him without asking for a huge return.

Former Phillies and Chicago White Sox great Dick Allen was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday in Cooperstown.

Shortstop Colson Montgomery drove in a team-high five runs, and fellow rookie Kyle Teel had a career-high four hits in the win.

The Sox throttled Cubs ace Shota Imanaga and homered four times to grab their sixth win in seven games, a stretch in which they've scored 61 runs.