Murakami homers for 5th straight game as Montgomery, Vargas keep up White Sox’ siege in loss

PHOENIX —Make it five in a row for raking White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami, who homered in yet another game Wednesday as his teammates Colson Montgomery and Miguel Vargas continued their own stunning long-ball streaks against the Diamondbacks.

It wasn’t enough as Arizona launched their own home run barrage against Sox starter Anthony Kay, who surrendered two homers and eight runs in an 11-7 loss.

Murakami’s latest moonshot was his longest yet, a 451-foot, two-run rainbow to left field in the seventh inning off D-backs reliever Ryan Thompson for his 10th of the season, passing Aaron Judge for the second-most in Major League Baseball.

Vargas’ third-inning blast off D-backs starter Eduardo Rodriguez was his third in as many games, sailing 428 feet with an exit velocity of 109 mph.

And there was no doubt about Montgomery’s fourth dinger in four games, either, at nearly 106 mph off the bat and 423 feet into the right-field stands at Chase Field.

The Sox have racked up 15 home runs in their last five games, with Vargas, Montgomery and Murakami accounting for 12 of them at the heart of the order.

“I really do agree that [hitting] is contagious,” Murakami said via interpreter Kenzo Yagi before his latest bomb. “I’m really happy that maybe I am getting the effect from the other players as much as I’m giving to the other players as well.”