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Chicago White Sox are putting up runs without Luis Robert and Eloy Jiménez — and mostly without the long ball: ‘Hitting’s contagious no matter who’s doing it’

It would have been understandable if the Chicago White Sox took a dip offensively after Luis Robert joined Eloy Jiménez on the injured list.

Instead, the Sox scored nine runs in four of the first six games since announcing Robert suffered a complete tear of his right hip flexor May 2 against the Cleveland Indians.

“It’s somebody different every night getting a clutch hit,” hitting coach Frank Menechino said during a conference call Wednesday. “These are guys coming together, they are starting to find a way to get on base, find a way to get that hit.