Dylan Cease won consecutive decisions for just the third time this season, and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-2 in a doubleheader opener Tuesday to end a strange run of losses when Chicago pitchers struck out 14 or more.
Cease allowed one run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts and one walk. Bryan Shaw struck out three over 1 2/3 innings, Lane Ramsey one and Gregory Santos two in a perfect ninth for his fifth save in nine chances.
Kansas City lost its fifth straight game and dropped to a major league-worst 44-101. The Royals have lost at least 100 games for the third time in six seasons and with 17 games left could break the team record of 106, set in 2005. Bobby Witt was 3 for 3, his 15th game this year of three or more hits for the Royals. Edward Olivares had an RBI double in the fourth and a run-scoring single in the sixth.In the second game of a doubleheader necessitated by Monday’s rainout, Jordan Lyles was to start for the Royals and Touki Toussaint for the White Sox. Lyles leads the major leagues in losses.TRAINER’S ROOM
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