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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Chi. White Sox 15, Colorado 3
When: 8:40 PM ET, Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Where: Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
Temperature: 68°
Umpires: Home - Alan Porter, 1B - Joe West, 2B - Marty Foster, 3B - Rob Drake
Attendance: 25393

White Sox 15, Rockies 3: Rookie Jose Abreu and Avisail Garcia each homered twice and Jose Quintana threw seven strong innings as visiting Chicago bounced back after losing the opener of three-game series.

Alexei Ramirez and Tyler Flowers also went deep in support of Quintana (1-0), who allowed two runs and five hits. Garcia finished with a career-high four hits, Abreu drove in a season-best five and Adam Eaton and Marcus Semien combined to go 6-for-9 with five runs scored in the top two spots in Chicago’s batting order.

Michael Cuddyer, the defending NL batting champion, had two hits, including a solo home run, to raise his average to .432 and Troy Tulowitzki drove in the other two runs with a double and sacrifice fly for Colorado. Rockies starter Franklin Morales (0-1) worked into the seventh inning for the first time since 2012, allowing six runs and eight hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Garcia leaned on Morales' 0-2 pitch with two outs in the second and drilled it over the wall in left field for a 1-0 lead. Ramirez followed with a single to left and Flowers stepped up and hit one even deeper over the left-field fence for a 3-0 lead.

The Rockies sliced into the deficit with single runs in the fourth and sixth innings to make it 4-2, but Abreu slammed his first major league homer on the 12th pitch with two aboard for a 7-2 advantage in the seventh inning and the White Sox tacked on six more runs in the eighth for a double-digit lead.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The six home runs for White Sox are their most in a game since June 24, 2009, a 10-7 win against the Dodgers that also included a homer from Ramirez. … The White Sox didn't score more than 12 runs in a game last season. … Rockies 1B Justin Morneau also had two hits, the only other player for the Rockies with a multi-hit game, and has hit safely in all seven games he has appeared this season.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Chi. White Sox   Colorado
Jose Quintana Player Franklin Morales
Win W/L Loss
7.0 IP 6.1
4 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 8
2.57 ERA 8.53
Hitting
Chi. White Sox   Colorado
Avisail Garcia Player Justin Morneau
4 Hits 2
3 RBI 0
2 HR 0
10 TB 2
.800 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Chi. White Sox 19 6 38 .442 17 6 15 5 2 0
Colorado 7 1 12 .226 12 4 3 3 0 1