The White Sox have been on a historic home run streak over the past few days. Sunday, versus the Cardinals, they notched the 10th occurrence in MLB history of 4 consecutive home runs when Yoan Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, Jose Abreu, and Eloy Jimenez went deep back to back to back to back in the 5th inning. The first three home runs also became the first time a team had 3 Cuban-born players go back to back to back.
This was the second time the White Sox have accomplished this rare feat, joining the Nationals as the only franchise to do it more than once. Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramírez, and Juan Uribe did the same on August 14, 2008 against the Royals.
The White Sox followed up on that with a little more history on Monday night. Last week, in Detroit, Tim Anderson and Eloy Jimenez led off the game against starter Matthew Boyd with back to back home runs. Boyd was back on the bump against the White Sox Monday night in Chicago, and again served up two home run balls to start the game, to Anderson again and Yoan Moncada. This made the White Sox the first team to ever lead off a game with back to back home runs against the same pitcher twice. They also halved the previous record of time between games with back to back home runs to start a game, down to 5. The Dodgers held the previous record, at 10 games.