ANAHEIM, Calif. — Luis Robert Jr. hit his 23rd homer, Seby Zavala hit his fifth and sixth of the season and Eloy Jimenez slugged his 10th in the White Sox’ 11-5 win against the Angels Wednesday.
Zavala drove in two runs with a single in the ninth and had four RBI. Andrew Vaughn also had three hits including a three-run double and Zach Remillard had three hits including an RBI double and a stolen base. Robert’s homer traveled 444 feet.
The Sox had 17 hits.
“That’s kind of what we’ve been waiting for,” manager Pedro Grifol said.
Lucas Giolito (6-5, 3.53 ERA) retired 16 of 17 in one stretch before allowing solo homers to Brandon Drury and Hunter Renfroe in the seventh. He allowed four runs in seven innings, striking out nine and issuing no walks.
Robert and Jimenez homered against Jaime Barria, who had allowed two homers all season entering the game and entered with a 2.14 ERA.
“It was good,” Jimenez said. “It’s not going to be like that every day. This game is going to be up and down a lot. Today was good for us because that reminds us of what we can do. But tomorrow is another day.”
Zavala was 4-for-35 (.114) with two homers and five RBI in his previous 18 games. He also homered twice on June 6 against the Yankees.
“We’ve had more consistent at-bats this week, it definitely helps and we got some good pitches to hit and I did a good job,” Zavala said. “I don’t really know what else to say. I didn’t miss my pitches.”
Shortstop Tim Anderson was the only Sox starter without a hit. Anderson walked but went 0-for-5, extending his hitting slump to 0-for-26 and 2-for-45, dropping the former batting champ’s average to .227. Anderson did not strike out and made hard contact twice.
It marked the first time in June the Sox had an outcome of a game decided by more than four runs.
“Overall it was a really good team win,” Grifol said. “This is what we are capable of doing. We just gotta be consistent. We have to come out there and shrink the strike zone. I feel like a broken record when I talk about it, but when we do, we can do some damage.”
It was the first time since May 26 the Sox had 10 or more runs.
“The offense was the story tonight, not me. The offense,” Giolito said. “They just erupted tonight, it was fantastic.
“Knowing how talented our offense is it’s a matter of time till they start to erupt.”
The Sox are 35-47 and go for a series split with Lance Lynn pitching Thursday afternoon.
“I want to continue to see that tomorrow,” Giolito said. “Big game, split the series and go to Oakland.”
