Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout combine for 3 homers off Lance Lynn — totaling 1,345 feet— in the Chicago White Sox’s 12-5 loss – The Denver Post

Mike Trout launched a 461-foot, two-run homer to left-center on Lance Lynn’s sixth pitch against the Los Angeles Angels.

Two innings later, with Trout on first after getting hit by a pitch, Shohei Ohtani hit a 425-foot, two-run homer to center against the Chicago White Sox starter.

Ohtani got to Lynn again the next inning with a 459-foot, two-run homer.

Lynn and the Sox couldn’t slow the two superstars in a 12-5 loss in front of 17,015 on Wednesday at Guaranteed Rate Field.

“You give up six runs on three swings, that just can’t happen,” Lynn said. “Especially the two guys that did it. Those are guys you can’t let beat you. And today I let them put it to where the (Sox) offense, it was too big of a hole for them.

“I’ve got to be better. I’ve got to be more efficient. I’ve got to make better pitches and get some outs there.”

Lynn allowed eight runs on eight hits in four innings as the Sox lost two of three in the series. He struck out four, walked two and hit two in his shortest outing of the season. The eight runs allowed matched a season high.

“You’re going to have bad ones — you’ve just got to make sure they’re not as bad as they were today,” he said. “I’ve had multiple good ones before this, so today is one of those days you figure out what you did wrong and you get back to doing what you were doing right before.”

The Sox surrendered five homers and have lost five of seven.

With the two-run homer by Trout, Lynn has allowed 15 first-inning runs, second-most in the majors.

Ohtani’s first homer came during a four-run third. Lynn hit two batters and walked two in the inning, in which nine Angels came to bat.

An inning later, Ohtani was up with a runner on second. He nearly matched Trout in distance for another two-run homer, his third home run of the series.

“It just seemed like every mistake (Lynn) made, they made good contact with,” manager Pedro Grifol said. “It was just one of those days for him. You have 32 of these starts (in a season) and you’ll have some you want to forget and some you want to remember for the rest of your life — and this wasn’t one of those.”

Lynn (4-6, 6.55 ERA) said of navigating through a lineup that includes Trout and Ohtani: “Just be smart. When I made a mistake, they hit it, and next time you’ve got to be more fine.”

It’s the fifth game this season that both Angels stars have homered.

Grifol said the key is minimizing their plate appearances.

“You have to eliminate free passes, bases on balls, hit by pitches. You have to keep those guys at four or three (at-bats),” Grifol said. “But free passes against a team like this, you’re not going to fare well.”

Sox starters weren’t at their sharpest this series, allowing 15 runs in 13⅓ innings. They gave up seven home runs.

The Angels hit their fourth home run Wednesday in the seventh, a two-run shot by Taylor Ward against Jesse Scholtens that stretched their lead to 10-1. Chad Wallach hit a solo homer off Garrett Crochet in the ninth.

The Sox have allowed at least five homers in a game four times this season, the most in baseball. Their 49 home runs allowed at home also leads the majors.

The Sox (23-35) are off Thursday before beginning a difficult month with just four games against teams with losing records.

“You don’t win games just because of talent, so we’ve got to figure out how to be better day in and day out,” Lynn said. “I know it starts with pitching, and after this series we have to right the ship as starters. We didn’t do our job this series.

“We know we have a division opponent (the Detroit Tigers) coming in and we didn’t play as well as we’d like. We didn’t pitch as well as we’d like — there’s no other way to say it. Coming into this weekend, we’ve got to be better.”

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