If you thought the division-leading Braves and Dodgers were going to put the White Sox in their place before they visited Rate Field, you weren’t alone. An at-best .500 record on the six-game homestand could have been seen as a moral victory, with lessons learned at the feet of baseball’s best.But after the Sox beat the Dodgers 6-4 on Sunday to go 4-1 on the abbreviated homestand, the only ones learning lessons are the doubters. The Sox keep checking off boxes for being considered a serious playoff contender, and they have another chance this week against another first-place team, the Yankees.‘‘I think you should stop thinking of this as a surprise just because we’re consistently winning [and] we’re consistently in every game,’’ said shortstop Colson Montgomery, who hit one of three home runs in a six-run sixth inning. ‘‘It doesn’t matter what team it is, we’re going to go out there and just try to play our ball. I think those days are kind of over.’’These days, the Sox are winning in all kinds of ways. On this day, it was with not one but two openers before usual starter Erick Fedde took over in the fourth. You might as well call it a bullpen game because Fedde’s 2⅔ innings were the most among the five pitchers used.Fedde, who experienced much of the 2024 Sox’ misery en route to their major-league-record 121 losses, said he thought things were different with this Sox team in spring training.‘‘We looked around and thought,…
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