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White Sox tie MLB record with 7 HRs in loss

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The Chicago White Sox put on a historic power display Saturday at U.S. Cellular Field, pumping out a whopping seven home runs against the Toronto Blue Jays to tie their 61-year-old franchise record for long balls in a game.

It wasn't enough to sink the reigning American League East champs, though.

Despite a strong performance from expatriated Canadian Brett Lawrie (who spanked two homers against his former club - one of them, an inside-the-park shot that started a back-to-back-to-back jack sequence off R.A. Dickey in the second), the White Sox weren't quite able to erase an early five-run deficit, falling 10-8 while tying the MLB record for homers in a game by a losing team. The Detroit Tigers are the only other club to manage seven homers in a game and still lose, accomplishing the dubious feat in both 1995 and 2004.

Date Tm Opp Rslt HR H
2016-06-25 CWS TOR L, 8-10 7 12
2004-08-08 DET BOS L, 9-11 7 11
1995-05-28 DET CHW L, 12-14 7 17

Besides Lawrie, the White Sox also received some yard work from Dioner Navarro (another former Blue Jay), J.B. Shuck, Tim Anderson, Alex Avila, and Adam Eaton.

"I don't think I've ever been a part of a game like that," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons told Brendan Kennedy of the Toronto Star. "It didn’t feel good until the final out was made, that’s for sure."

Now 20-30 since the start of May, the White Sox are the third team to record a seven-homer game in 2016, though the two other clubs - the Baltimore Orioles (June 2) and Colorado Rockies (May 31) - won their respective games by at least five runs.

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