Meet the Chicago White Sox, baseball's unstoppable home-run hitting force.
"Unstoppable" is a bit hyperbolic, considering the South Siders are just 3-2 on the young season and just narrowly missed getting swept by the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night. But the White Sox hit two more homers in a 4-3 victory to raise their total to a major league leading 14 in 2018.
Jose Abreu delivered what was the White Sox most important homer of the season so far, a tie-breaking, game-winning blast in the top of the eighth that while traveling an official 430 feet appeared to be just as muscled as the 481-foot bomb Avisail Garcia hit the night before, the longest homer in baseball so far this season.
And how about this? It was just the second time in his five big league seasons that Abreu homered on a 3-0 count.
Matt Davidson added his fourth home run of the campaign earlier in the game, becoming the first White Sox player ever to hit four homers in the team's first five games of a season.
All in all, the South Siders are up to 14 long balls, which is the most through five games in franchise history.
And all of this has come on the road. Guaranteed Rate Field has a reputation as a home-run friendly ballpark, meaning that once the weather warms up — it's supposed to be frigid for Thursday's home opener — these powerful White Sox could start sending balls out of the yard at quite a rate.
No matter where they're going from here, as they head back to the South Side, they are baseball's home run kings.