CHICAGO -- The White Sox planned on Sunday being a bullpen game.

The strategy worked about as well as the team could have hoped. Until the eighth inning.

Xander Bogaerts hit a grand slam and the Red Sox scored seven runs in the eighth on the way to beating the White Sox 9-2 in front of 36,533 fans at Guaranteed Rate Field. It was the first sellout of the season for the White Sox.

Bogaerts provided a rude welcome for reliever Juan Minaya, who joined the White Sox from Triple-A Charlotte before the game.

Bogaerts lined a 0-1 changeup over the left-field wall for the fifth grand slam of his career. Two of those runs were charged to Kelvin Herrera, who had to exit with the bases loaded because of lower back stiffness. He is day to day.

Herrera surrendered five runs in the inning.

Caleb Frare, who was recalled from Charlotte before the game, entered and walked in a run. Minaya followed and was greeted with the grand slam.

Dylan Covey kept the White Sox close early.

The right-hander allowed two runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings in his first start of the season. He struck out two and walked three in his first appearance since being recalled from Triple-A Charlotte on April 29.

He left Sunday's game with the White Sox trailing 2-0.

Ryan Cordell got the White Sox within a run with a solo home run to center in the fifth inning. It was his third homer of the season.

Jose Abreu tied the game with a solo homer in the sixth. It was his eighth home run of the season, and his 154th of his career. He is tied with Bill Melton for eighth on the White Sox's all-time home run list.

The Red Sox used the big eighth inning to take three of the four games in the series.

The White Sox went 5-4 on the nine-game homestand.