ARLINGTON -- The final line from Zack Collins’ first Major League start Friday night against the Rangers shows one hit in five at-bats along with a trio of strikeouts.

But it was that opening at-bat, with two outs in the second inning during a 5-4 White Sox victory in 10 innings at Globe Life Park, that deserved all the attention.

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After walking as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s 7-3 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field, and getting rid of some of his understandable nerves, Collins launched a mammoth three-run blast off Texas starter Ariel Jurado to erase a 2-0 deficit. Collins’ first career hit and first career homer followed Tim Anderson’s two-out single and Yolmer Sanchez being hit by a pitch from Jurado.

The homer traveled 447 feet, per Statcast, and had an exit velocity of 102.9 mph and a launch angle of 30 degrees. Collins, whose fiancee was among the few family members in attendance for Friday’s contest (during which he started at designated hitter and hit eighth), amassed 49 career Minor League home runs after being selected in the first round of the 2016 MLB Draft.

None of those felt like Collins’ drive just to the right of center in this series opener.

“I was pumped,” Collins said with a wry smile. “Then I was just in shock. I didn’t know whether it was a dream. I was running around the bases, it was crazy. I knew it was gone. Running around the bases, it kind of seemed like a blur to me.”

“Oh, everybody can do that, you know,” said Sanchez, who brought home Eloy Jimenez with the game-winning run via a one-out safety squeeze in the 10th. “It was special. First career hit is a homer, unbelievable. He took a really good at-bat against the Cubs, he got a walk and he’s got a lot of power. Happy for him, and I hope he enjoys it.”

Friday night’s victory moved the White Sox to 36-37, closed out by Alex Colome’s franchise-record 16th straight save to start a season. As general manager Rick Hahn has said about the season overall, it’s not about the win total but more about how they get there. And this contest was another good moment for the White Sox rebuild.

Yoan Moncada doubled twice and scored a run, Jimenez singled home a run and finished with two hits and Reynoldo Lopez, who has the highest ERA of all qualifying starters at 6.23, bounced back nicely with 3 1/3 scoreless frames after allowing three runs on two home runs in the first two innings, including a 505-foot blast to Nomar Mazara in the first.

“At the beginning, I was feeling too passive,” Lopez said through interpreter Billy Russo. “That’s something as a starter I need to correct. I need to be more aggressive since the get-go. I was able to adjust it to be more aggressive in the second inning, and then things started getting better.”

This young crew is slowly but surely starting to come together, and there’s more to come in the Minors, with Dylan Cease, Luis Robert and Nick Madrigal among the top 100 prospects in baseball, per MLB Pipeline. This contest was about Collins, who had the home run ball retrieved for him by the team and was one tradeoff with the fan away from adding it to his trophy case.

“I’ve never faced him before and didn't know him,” Jurado said of Collins. “I made a mistake and left a pitch in the middle of the plate.”

“We are going to do our best while we are up here,” Collins said. “This team has a lot of excitement coming up. We are excited."