PHOENIX (AP) – Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the ninth inning that lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1 on Thursday for their third win in four games.

With the score 1-1, Chase Meidroth drew a four-pitch walk from Paul Sewald (0-3) and moved up on Tristan Peters´ sacrifice. Pinch-hitter Edgar Quero walked and Benintendi, who is hitting .216, followed by driving a 2-2 fastball 410 feet into the swimming pool area in right-center for his second homer this season.

Grant Taylor (1-0) stranded runners at second and third by striking out Jose Fernandez to end the seventh, then worked around a leadoff single in the eighth to pitch 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Seranthony Domínguez pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save.

Chicago, which had nine singles before Benintendii’s homer, took two of three from the Diamondbacks, who lost a series for the first time since they were swept three games at the Los Angeles Dodgers opening the season.

Munetaka Murakami´s five-game home run streak came to an end for the White Sox. He went 1 for 5 with a single and three strikeouts.

Chicago’s Davis Martin gave up on run and six hits in 6 1/3 innings, allowing Adrian Del Castillo’s RBI double in the first. Arizona´s Michael Soroka allowed one run and seven hits in five innings. Miguel Vargas had a tying single in the third.

Arizona´s Ildemaro Vargas singled in the fourth inning to extend his hitting streak to 21 games dating to last season. Aramis Garcia got his first big league hit, a lined single to left leading off the third.

White Sox: RHP Erick Fedde (0-3, 3.10) starts a homestand opener Friday against Washington RHP Miles Mikolas (0-3, 9.15).

Diamondbacks: LHP Zac Gallen (1-1, 3.51) will be on the mound Saturday in the opener of a two-game series against San Diego in Mexico City.

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