Luis Robert Jr. haunted his former team by hitting two homers Saturday night as the visiting New York Mets outlasted the Chicago White Sox 10-5 in the middle game of a three-game interleague series.
Robert, who played his first six seasons with the White Sox before being traded to the Mets on Jan. 20, hit a two-run homer off Luis Castillo (4-10) in the third, two pitches after successfully challenging a called third strike.
Robert added a solo shot in the seventh off Huascar Brazoban, who opened the season with the Mets before being dealt to the White Sox Aug. 3, to complete his first two-homer game since Aug. 16, 2024 and the eighth of his career.
Bo Bichette, Carson Benge and Luis Torrens also homered for the last-place Mets, who improved to 12-5 since the trade deadline. The five round-trippers tied a season-high for New York, which went deep five times against the Detroit Tigers in a 9-4 win on May 14.
Benge opened the scoring with an RBI single in the first and finished 3-for-5. Eric Wagaman and Marcus Semien each had run-scoring singles in the fifth. Bichette, Semien and Jared Young collected two hits each.
Braden Montgomery and Tristan Peters homered for the American League Central-leading White Sox, who dropped to 8-10 since the deadline. Montgomery also worked a bases-loaded walk in the fifth, while Andrew Benintendi lofted a sacrifice fly in the third and Sam Antonucci had an RBI single in the sixth to cut the deficit to 7-5.
Austin Warren (2-3), the third of five Mets pitchers, was credited with the win after he tossed 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Starter Christian Scott gave up four runs on five hits and four walks while striking out six over 4 2/3 innings.
Castillo allowed four runs on eight hits and one walk while striking out three over 2 2/3 innings. He threw 80 pitches, including 42 in the third inning, when Bichette and Benge battled him for 11 and 10 pitches, respectively, in consecutive at-bats.
