White Sox slugger Matt Davidson can hit and seems to square it up best at Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City. Davidson laced two more longballs on Friday night leading the Southsiders to consecutive wins.
Matt Davidson belts his sixth home run of the year with a solo dinger in the 4th inning, giving the White Sox the lead #WhiteSox pic.twitter.com/7WzaH9YiDV
— TheRenderMLB (@TheRenderMLB2) April 28, 2018
The White Sox took a 4-2 lead into the seventh Reynaldo Lopez ran into trouble and the bullpen couldn’t hold onto the lead. After Lopez allowed two singles, Salvador Perez lined out to center for the first out of the inning. Lopez gave way to Aaron Bummer skipped one past Welington Castillo allowing Whit Merrifield to score and Mike Moustakas to advance to second. After Lucas Duda grounded out, Bummer made room for Nate Jones to join the party. Jones seemed to have the inning in hand when Tim Anderson flubbed a routine play to first past Jose Abreu.
And it wasn’t until the 11th when Davidson decided he’d had enough…
Matt Davidson hits a 2-run go-ahead homer in the 11th, his 2nd of the game, notching the most at Kauffman Stadium by a visitor in a season #WhiteSox pic.twitter.com/SxDoFG69kb
— TheRenderMLB (@TheRenderMLB2) April 28, 2018
Davidson’s production in Kansas City is historic. Besides the White Sox smoking 14 home runs in four games at Kaufman Stadium this season — the most since 2008 when they hit 15 home runs in a 9-game stretch — Davidson has hit seven of his own at the ballpark in 2018. And that’s only the beginning of Davidson’s facility.
Matt Davidson: first player in #WhiteSox history with 3 multi-HR games in the same road ballpark in the same season.
— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) April 28, 2018
Matt Davidson 2018 at Kauffman Stadium (4 games):
.533/.611/1.933, 7 HR, 12 RBI#WhiteSox— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) April 28, 2018
Matt Davidson is the fifth #WhiteSox hitter with two consecutive multi-homer games.
First since Carlos Quentin on 7/10/10-7/11/10. The other three are Joe Crede (6/6/08-6/7/08), Greg Norton (5/27/1999-5/28/1999) and Zeke Bonura (05/19/1934-05/20/1934). #SoxStats
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) April 28, 2018
The #WhiteSox record for most multi-HR games on the road in a season is 4 by Robin Ventura in 1995 — and it was 4 different parks.
Matt Davidson on April 27th already has 3 multi-HR games on the road this season. All at Kauffman Stadium.
— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) April 28, 2018
The White Sox are playing well against the Royals this season and they’ve put together consecutive wins the for the first time this season since Opening Day in — you guessed it — Kansas City.
It’s not an absolute truth, but Matt Davidson is both a mule and a goat.
