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\n White Sox starting pitcher Shane Smith throws home during Monday\u2019s game against the Kansas City Royals in Chicago.
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CHICAGO \u2014 Shane Smith allowed one hit in a career-high seven innings, Korey Lee hit a two-run homer, and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-0 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Smith (4-7) pitched into the seventh inning for the first time in his career, facing just 23 batters on 80 pitches.<\/p>\n
Lee, in his first start since getting called up from Triple-A Charlotte, drove a shot over the left-field wall for his first home run of the season for a 5-0 lead in the fourth. Brooks Baldwin followed with a home run near the same spot for a six-run lead.<\/p>\n
Chicago has won three straight games after losing 14 of 18.<\/p>\n
Kansas City dropped to 13-10 in August. The Royals entered having scored at least five runs in 20 of 34 games (58.8%) since the All-Star break, tied with Milwaukee for the most in the majors.<\/p>\n
Kansas City starter Noah Cameron (7-6) allowed six earned runs and eight hits in five innings.<\/p>\n
Mike Yastrzemski hit a double in the third and Bobby Witt Jr. had one in the ninth for the Royals’ two hits.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/strong><\/p>\n Chicago scored three runs on four hits in the first inning. Edgar Quero hit a shot into the gap in left-center field to score Chase Meidroth from first to open the scoring. Lenyn Sosa followed with a hit into the right-field gap for back-to-back doubles. Curtis Mead added Chicago\u2019s third double for his third RBI of the season and a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n Key stat<\/strong><\/p>\n Chicago scored in the first inning for the third time in four games after doing so just once in the previous nine.<\/p>\n Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n Royals RHP Michael Lorenzen (5-8, 4.50) is scheduled to make his 21st start of the season while White Sox LHP Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez (1-3, 2.51) will be making his sixth start.<\/p>\n \n Chicago White Sox’s Korey Lee (26) hits a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Erin Hooley) \n Chicago White Sox’s Lenyn Sosa runs the bases after hitting a one-run double during the first inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Erin Hooley) \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.dailyherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White Sox starting pitcher Shane Smith throws home during Monday\u2019s game against the Kansas City Royals in Chicago. AP CHICAGO \u2014 Shane Smith allowed one hit in a career-high seven innings, Korey Lee hit a two-run homer, and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-0 on Monday night. Smith (4-7) pitched into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1979745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22804,316608,258880,25866,354779,21848,354780],"class_list":["post-1979744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-associated-press","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-content-providers","tag-mlb","tag-pro-sports","tag-sports","tag-sports-leagues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shane-Smith-gives-up-1-hit-in-a-career-high-7.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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