The White Sox are down to .500, but they keep crushing homers

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The White Sox saw their dreams of going 162-0 dashed Monday. One night later, they fell to .500 and found themselves on the brink of a three-game sweep against the Toronto Blue Jays.

But in this still-nascent season, the South Siders are just crushing the ball. The White Sox bashed three more home runs in Tuesday night's 14-5 loss to the Blue Jays, bringing their season total to 12 in just four games.

Tim Anderson, Avisail Garcia and Yolmer Sanchez did the honors Tuesday, a night after Welington Castillo had a two-homer game in the series-opener.

Anderson's fourth-inning blast helped score the shortstop a bit of redemption after he made his first error of the season and allowed a run to score in the bottom of the third.

Sanchez lifted a ball to the second deck to bring the White Sox within two in the eighth.

But the highlight of the night for the visitors was Garcia's shot in the fifth, a 481-foot bomb that went down as the longest homer of the season in baseball and the longest for a White Sox hitter since Statcast started keeping track of such things in 2015.

Coming into Tuesday night, only the Colorado Rockies had more homers than the White Sox, with 10.

But when it's come to hitting the ball out of the park, what a rip-roaring start for the South Siders, who ranked just 24th in homers in 2017. Already they have three players with multiple home runs on the season in Matt Davidson (three), Anderson (three) and Castillo (two). Garcia and Sanchez joined Jose Abreu and Yoan Moncada in the one-homer club Tuesday.

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