Andrew Vaughn and Luis Robert Jr. provided instant offense for the White Sox on Monday against the Texas Rangers.

Vaughn connected on an Andrew Heaney slider for a home run to left with two outs and nobody on in the sixth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field. Five pitches later, Robert homered to center off a Heaney fastball.

It was the third time in the last five games the Sox went back-to-back.

Oddly enough, it was also the eighth and ninth consecutive solo home run for the team.

That streak came to an end in the first inning Tuesday with a two-run homer by Eloy Jiménez.

The Sox have hit at least one homer in 12 of their last 15 games, with Jiménez’s first-inning blast giving the team a total of 23 during the stretch.

The homer, with Vaughn on base, was exactly what the team has been looking for and what was missing in previous games.

“It’s making a truth of the point that solos don’t beat you, crooked numbers beat you,” manager Pedro Grifol said before Tuesday’s game against the Rangers. “I’m happy that we’re hitting the ball in the air more, I’m happy we’re hitting homers. Now, we’ve got to add the other component to it, we’ve got to get on base prior to those homers.”

Vaughn singled to right with one out in the first on Tuesday. Jiménez followed with the two-run homer to right-center, snapping the solo streak.

The nine consecutive solo homers were the franchise’s longest such streak since 12 straight from Sept. 13-20, 2020, according to Elias.

“We’re driving the ball better, more extra-base hits, we’ve just got to string together more of them in a row,” right fielder Gavin Sheets told the Tribune on Tuesday. “Never going to complain about solo homers, but it’s tough to win with just solo homers.

“We’re collectively doing a much better job of it, we’re driving the ball better. Now we’ve just got to put together more consistency and do it when guys are on base, too. We’re working on it.”

And it did Tuesday.

Prior to Jiménez’s homer, the Sox hadn’t done so with someone on base since June 14, when Jake Burger hit a game-tying two-run homer in the eighth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.

Since then, Robert and Eloy Jiménez went back-to-back in the first and Burger and Vaughn did likewise in the fourth inning Thursday in Los Angeles to account for all the offense in a 5-4 loss in 11 innings.

Sheets hit a one-out homer in the fifth inning and Andrew Benintendi hit his first of the season in the sixth inning on Friday in a 3-2 loss to Seattle.

Jiménez went deep leading off the second Saturday against the Mariners, while Vaughn and Robert had the homers for the only runs in Monday’s 5-2 loss to the Rangers.

Some of the recent changes to the batting order, like inserting Benintendi in the leadoff spot, were done, in part, to generate more traffic on the bases ahead of the team’s sluggers

Patience at the plate could lead to more opportunities with runners on base. The Sox entered Tuesday last in the majors with 180 walks.

“We’re getting ourselves in some pretty good counts and then we’re chasing when we get ourselves in those counts,” Grifol said. “I think that’s wanting to do a little too much instead of like, ‘You know what? This is a ball, I’m going to go over to first base, I’m going to let the next guy do it.’

“That’s when you start hitting homers with guys on base, when you just turn it over to the next guy. I mean, nine solo homers, that’s hard to do. It’s just another indication where, take the walk, get to first base and let the next guy do his job.”

A single did the job of setting up Jiménez on Tuesday.