The White Sox jumped all over the A’s for six early runs, and won in a rout on the West Coast. Meanwhile on the farm, a split day saw 30 hits and 26 runs in Winston-Salem.

Chicago White Sox 10, A’s 3 Michael A. Taylor did his best vintage Luis Robert Jr. imitation, with three doubles and a stolen base in the White Sox rout. Jonathan Cannon pitched all but four outs of the game, as the novel “sandwich bulk starter.” Don’t look now, the White Sox are 7-20.

Charlotte Knights 8, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 7 Charlotte put on an extraordinary comeback after falling behind 5-0 on the road in the very first inning on Saturday. In fact, S/W-B ran the score to 7-0 within three innings, mostly at the expense of reliever Trey McGough, who was pushed into starting tonight by the absolute inability by the White Sox front office to collect more than six or seven passable, majors-ready starting arms at any given time.

The good news: Charlotte ran off a string of unanswered runs as well, and its eight beat the RR’s seven. After getting one back in the fifth, the Knights played singles ball in scoring another three runs, on one-baggers from Bryan Ramos, Kyle Teel and Andre Lipcius, and the game narrowed to just one run after Corey Julks doubled in two more. Zach DeLoach knotted the game, 7-7, with a double of his own, and we had a brand-new ballgame. After all of that hitting, wouldn’t you just know it, the eventual lead run came home on a wild pitch. The Knights improved to 11-15.

Rocket City Trash Pandas 4, Birmingham Barons 2 The Birmingham offense tonight was buff (eight hits, three walks) but not opportunistic (six LOB, 0-for-6 with RISP). Wikelman González was typically wild and inefficient, dropping the Barons to 11-9.

Rome Emperors 16, Winston-Salem Dash 10 It was a slugfest in North Carolina, with the two clubs combining for 26 runs on 30 hits. Blows were traded equally through seven innings, with Rome ahead after the stretch, 11-10 — but the Dash pen turned nail-biter to rout. Rome ended up with almost double (20-11) the runners in scoring position, sinking Winston-Salem to 6-14.

Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 2, Myrtle Beach Pelicans 1 We get to end on a good note, as the CBs got a Nathan Archer solo shot in the seventh to spell the difference in this game. As you can imagine, the Kanny pitching was masterful, anchored by Luis Reyes in his best start of the young season. The Cannon Ballers improve to 11-9.

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