White Sox keeping the faith in Yoan Moncada

Yoan Moncada was 0-for-8 with five strikeouts in the first two games of his return to Boston, where he was a much-heralded Red Sox prospect and made his major-league debut in 2016.

Rick Renteria stuck with Moncada and even inserted him into the leadoff spot Sunday. Moncada rewarded his manager with a pair of hits in the White Sox’s 5-2 victory over the Red Sox.

Renteria conceded before the game that Moncada likely was pressing in his homecoming.

“We just talked to him a little bit,” Renteria said. “He’s trying to live up to expectations. We just told him to be himself. What we want him to do is to continue to improve every day. Those expectations he has of himself, that people have of him,…