White Sox hand Twins first loss

Avisail Garcia and White Sox manager Rick Renteria are already excited about the returns from the 25-year-old’s offensive adjustment.

The idea is simple: Just make contact, and big hits will follow.

Garcia homered and had three RBIs, Geovany Soto also went deep and Chicago handed the Minnesota Twins their first loss of the season with a 6-2 victory on Saturday.

Garcia was 3 for 4 on the day and is 8 for 16 this season.

“He’s not trying to hit homers, he’s just trying to have good at-bats,” Renteria said. “He’s a strong man. When he puts the barrel of the bat on the baseball, it’s got a chance to travel. It happened today.”

Garcia was a double shy of the cycle. The right fielder had a two-run triple in the second inning against starter Adalberto Mejia (0-1), and he and Soto hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth — Soto’s third of the season in four games.

“You don’t have to do too much,” Garcia said. “You just have to see the ball and hit it. The homers will come. I know I have power.”

The Twins (4-1) were looking to start 5-0 for the first time since 1968 but lacked the strong pitching that carried them in their first four games. Mejia lasted just 1 innings in his first MLB start, and Minnesota’s bullpen allowed three runs, snapping a 16 -inning scoreless streak. ORIOLES 5, YANKEES 4: Hyun Soo Kim hit a tiebreaking RBI single off Dellin Betances in the seventh inning, and Baltimore remained the only unbeaten team in the majors by rallying past New York.

TIGERS 4, RED SOX 1: Jordan Zimmermann pitched six solid innings, and Jose Iglesias and James McCann homered for Detroit.

PIRATES 6, BRAVES 4: Gregory Polanco had no trouble with R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball, getting three of his four hits and driving in a run off the starter to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Atlanta Braves.

CUBS 11, BREWERS 6: Kris Bryant broke out of his early slump by driving in his first three runs of the season for Chicago.