The best way to wash away the ugliness of an admittedly "bad day"?
Do something that had only been done one other time in franchise history - and only nine times in Major League Baseball history.
The White Sox launched back-to-back-to-back-to-back jacks off St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Roel Ramirez in the fifth inning of Sunday's game at Guaranteed Rate Field, the second time ever a quartet of South Side hitters hit four straight dingers.
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Cardinals starting pitcher Dakota Hudson allowed just one run over four innings of work, but St. Louis, which hadn't played in 17 days prior to Saturday's doubleheader, went to the bullpen and called on Ramirez to make his big league debut.
But the First Roel was one to forget for the rookie.
In a two-out jam, he served up a game-breaking three-run homer to Yoán Moncada, who got off a little bit of a schneid, coming into Sunday's game in a 7-for-42 slump. There was nothing slumpy about this bomb.
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That was just the beginning. Yasmani Grandal followed by launching his first home run in a White Sox uniform to about the exact same spot in the right-field seats. It was the longest of the bunch, traveling 425 feet.
Then it was José Abreu's turn, making it three straight homers for the White Sox and three straight homers by Cuban-born White Sox hitters.
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The cherry on top of the Sunday sundae came from Eloy Jiménez, who made it four in a row by big league batters for just the 10th time.
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For as rare as such a feat is in baseball, White Sox fans have seen it before.
Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramírez and Juan Uribe went back-to-back-to-back-to-back against the Kansas City Royals on Aug. 14, 2008. Those four homers, though, came against two pitchers. Sunday, the White Sox did it against one guy.
That fifth inning obviously flipped the game on its head, sending a well-pitched 1-0 affair to a 7-0 Home Run Derby in a blink.
After picking up just four runs on only six hits in the two seven-inning games combined Saturday, the White Sox scored six runs on four homers in four trips to the plate Sunday. It's been a back and forth between offensive extremes for the White Sox this season, between offensive eruptions and head-scratching offensive silence. Well, after Saturday's silence, it doesn't get much louder (in an empty stadium, of course) than what happened Sunday.
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