KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tickets in the left-field seats at Guaranteed Rate Field are going fast.
The rebuilding White Sox aren’t expected to contend for a championship in 2018, but they started the campaign with a bang — six of them, actually — on Opening Day.
After going down 4-0 in the first inning, the White Sox battled back with the long ball, blasting three homers out of Kauffman Stadium in a five-run fourth inning and two more the following frame in a three-run fifth. Matt Davidson went deep three times, his third the final three tallies in a 14-7 win over the Kansas City Royals.
Jose Abreu, Davidson and Tim Anderson got the party started in the fourth.
And Davidson and Anderson each followed with their respective second homers of the afternoon in the fifth. Davidson smoked an eighth-inning pitch out to boost the blowout to 14-4.
The six dingers were the most ever in an Opening Day game for the White Sox and matched the major league record for homers in an Opening Day game.
Abreu and Davidson’s back-to-back jacks were the first ever on Opening Day for the White Sox. And Davidson and Anderson became the fifth and sixth White Sox players to have multi-homer days on Opening Day. Davidson became the 16th White Sox player to hit three homers in a single game and the fourth major leaguer ever to homer three times in a season-opener.
Not a bad way to start the 2018 season.