For two games in Kansas City, the White Sox have looked like a flat offensive team, doomed for a hard regression to the mean and a dose of cold reality as the weeks wear on. For the other two games, they’ve easily crushed a last-place club.
Thursday afternoon was all about the latter, as a pair of tape-measure dingers from Jose Abreu and Matt Davidson backed an untouchable Derek Holland, and the Sox flattened the Royals 8-3.
After starting 0-2 against Royals starter Ian Kennedy, Abreu scratched his way back even before unloading on a center-cut fastball for a 427-foot line drive out to center, putting the White Sox up 2-0 in the first, and beginning the slow wane of the competitive nature of the affair.