Ben Rice and Paul Goldschmidt hit two-run homers for the New York Yankees, who scored 10 runs in the third and fourth innings during a 12-2 rout of the visiting Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.
The Yankees won for the eighth time in 12 games since losing Aaron Judge to a rib injury, and they scored double-digit runs for the eighth time this season. New York finished with 16 hits, its second-highest total of the year.
Rice and Goldschmidt hit two of New York’s three homers off Chicago’s Davis Martin (9-3). Rookie Spencer Jones homered at Yankee Stadium for the first time, forging a 1-1 tie in the second inning before the hosts surged ahead with a four-run third and a six-run fourth.
Rice gave the Yankees a 7-1 lead with a drive to right off a fourth-inning Martin curveball. Two batters later, Goldschmidt ended Martin’s night with a drive to left field for his 10th homer, equaling his total from last season.
Rice became the fourth American League player to reach 20 homers. The first baseman joined Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez, Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton and injured Chicago rookie Munetaka Murakami.
The homers supported a strong showing from Gerrit Cole (2-1), who allowed two runs on three hits in six innings. Cole struck out six and walked two while throwing 90 pitches.
Cole allowed a homer to Andrew Benintendi in the first and an RBI infield hit by Luisangel Acuna in the sixth.
Ryan Yarbrough threw three scoreless innings for his second save.
Cody Bellinger collected three hits, including a tiebreaking two-run single in the third. Ryan McMahon hit an RBI single in the fourth, and the Yankees also scored on a walk by Jones, a sacrifice fly by Jose Caballero and a throwing error by White Sox reliever Chris Murphy.
Caballero added a homer in the ninth off Acuna, who moved from shortstop to take the mound for the first time in his major league career.
Martin allowed a career-high-tying nine runs on eight hits in 3 1/3 innings. He walked three and fanned four. Martin, who had allowed just three homers in his first 13 starts this year, saw his ERA rise from 2.41 to 3.31.
Chicago was held to four hits and fell to 5-4 in a stretch of 11 straight games against the Philadelphia Phillies, the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Yankees.
