Tristan Peters has homered in five straight games. That ties the White Sox franchise record and the MLB rookie record, and he did it in the same season a teammate, Murakami, put together his own five-game homer streak. No team since 1900 has had two rookies do that in the same year. Chicago has that team.
None of that changes what the Twins are trying to do to the White Sox on the scoreboard. A hot bat can go quiet in an instant, and moneylines do not care about streaks, only outcomes. But when a rookie is running the kind of stretch that puts him in the same sentence as every White Sox hitter who ever played the position, every at bat becomes appointment viewing, and the game around him gets pulled into the orbit of whether he keeps it going.
So it comes down to this: White Sox or Twins, straight up, with Peters and Chicago's rookie class riding into Minnesota looking for one more night in the record books, and Minnesota looking to be the team that ends it.