Before the game on Sunday, Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker did not want to talk about the possibility of sweeping the Chicago White Sox in a four-game home series. He was proud of the way his team had been playing the previous three-games and just wanted them to stay consistent in what they had been doing.

All the Astros did was sweep the White Sox with an 8-2 victory on Sunday to put them in overall first place in the American League with a record of 43-28. The win also concluded a six-game home stand with Houston going 6-0 and they are currently on a seven-game win streak.

Shortstop Carlos Correa, who had a solo home run to left field in the bottom of the fourth inning to push the Astros lead to 7-2, believes that Houston is playing very good baseball right now but knows that there is a lot of games left to be played.

“It's obviously always great to get a sweep and coming against a great team like the White Sox is great, but at the same time, it's just June,” said Correa who loved seeing the replica of his jersey in the stands on Father’s Day. “You want to win games, but it's not the World Series just yet. We want to keep playing good baseball, want to stay consistent, and who knows, maybe we'll see them in October at some point.”

Chicago came into Minute Maid Park touting the best record in the American League before getting swept. They also had a few players who harbored some animosity towards the Astros and made some disparaging remarks to the media about Houston and the sign-stealing scandal that took place in 2017. Some players felt that the Astros got off very lightly by not having any players suspended because of their admission.

One player who knew firsthand just how good the Astros are is White Sox pitcher Dallas Keuchel who was a part of the Astros World Series team in 2017. He started the game on Sunday but was removed after 2 2/3 innings where he gave up a season high six runs.

"It's just one of those four-game series where you face a good team that's hot, and you're not really doing anything good on your end, so it was a good old-fashioned butt-whooping," said Keuchel who won the 2015 A.L. Cy Young Award with Houston. "I had every emotion under the sun going there. I wasn't making terrible pitches, but at the same time, I wasn't giving myself any room to breathe.”

Houston used a five-run third inning to help starting pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. improve to 4-1 on the season after going six innings allowing two runs and striking out four batters.

"I felt like my velocity was there," McCullers said about his outing on Sunday. "The breaking stuff was there. This is really the first time in about a month that I was able to go out there freely and throw my breaking stuff."

The Astros will take on the Baltimore Orioles on Monday to start a three-game series against them before heading to Detroit to take on former manager A.J. Hinch and the Tigers.