I was out house-hunting, so ended up catching the majority of this game on the radio between stops.
Therefore, here's a bullet-point recap for now. Feel free to fill in additional details.
*Dallas Keuchel's dreams of following Lucas Giolito's no-hitter died on his first pitch of the game, but he's now 7-for-7 in satisfactory starts after throwing six innings of two-run ball. He survived some hard-hit line drives to carry a shutout into the sixth, but he alternated walks with outs to load the bases, then gave up a two-run bloop single to Jacob Stallings to end the shutout streak.
Still, Keuchel's second half is off to as strong a start as his first. He's now 5-2 with a 2.0 ERA.
*Early offensive support allowed Keuchel to cruise. The White Sox maximized their scoring opportunity in the second inning. Luis Robert's one-out sac fly scored the game's first run, but the Sox tacked on three more before Trevor Williams could record the third out. Nomar Mazara scooped an RBI single to the left-center gap, and Danny Mendick hoisted a hanging curveball off the glove of Gregory Polanco and into the Pirates bullpen for a 4-0 lead.
*The Sox pushed that lead to 8-0 before the Pirates figured out how to score against Sox pitching. Edwin Encarnación hit the bejeezus ripped a two seamer halfway up the seats in left for a solo shot in the fourth, and Eloy Jiménez flipped an outside-corner fastball just over the wall in right for a three-run homer with two outs in the fifth.
*For the second time in a week, José Abreu made a pitcher pay for buzzing the tower. After Tyler Bashlor started him with 94 mph up and in, Abreu scalded an up-and-in 85 mph changeup just over the wall in left. The club's fourth homer put the Sox in double digits.
*Jiménez led the way by going 2-for-3 with the homer and a walk, which isn't bad considering he was expected to sit. He'd turned an ankle in the postgame celebration around Giolito. Yoán Moncada collected two doubles from the second spot, which is always a welcome sight.
*Robert was the only regular without a hit, but he did come through with the sac fly, and made strong contact over the course of the day despite nothing to show for it.
