Yerminator moonshot highlights Sox six-run first vs. Plesac originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
What a difference a night makes.
Finally free of trying to muster some offense against reigning American League Cy Young winner Shane Bieber — who threw nine shutout innings Tuesday night — the White Sox bats caught fire in the bottom of the first Wednesday, tagging Zach Plesac for six runs and chasing him from the game before three outs were recorded.
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Adam Eaton, Luis Robert and Yoán Moncada all singled off Plesac, Moncada's base hit scoring the game's first run. Then Yermín Mercedes continued his torrid start to the season with his latest monster long ball, this one traveling 431 feet into the left-field seats and bringing home three more runs.
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Mercedes hit a 485-foot blast in the home opener less than a week ago. His first two homers at Guaranteed Rate Field have traveled a combined 916 feet.
After the three-run shot, Mercedes upped his eye-popping numbers. He was 17-for-34 with three home runs and 10 RBIs, slashing an ungodly .500/.553/.853.
But the White Sox weren't done with their crooked number. Andrew Vaughn and Leury García produced another run with back-to-back two-out doubles, and Nick Madrigal singled home García to make it a half dozen runs against Plesac, the Crown Point, Indiana, native who dominated the White Sox last season, allowing just four runs over 20.2 innings in his three starts against them.
Plesac got "na na, hey hey, goodbyed" out of the game, and though the White Sox didn't score any more from there, they extended the first inning to an 11th batter before things came to a close.
It was an impressive display by an offense that mustered just three hits a night earlier and has been hit or miss for much of the season's early going, frequently failing to come through in scoring situations. In the first inning Wednesday night, they went 4-for-6 with runners in scoring position.
Not a bad way to start things off.
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