Talk about winning ugly.
After dropping the first two games of the series against the New York Yankees, the Chicago White Sox desperately needed a win with the Cleveland Guardians breathing down their necks in the AL Central and a daunting road trip that includes stops in Tampa Bay and Boston looming. Instead, the White Sox managed to salvage two wins, but needed 23 innings to do it.
Less than 24 hours after a dramatic 5-4 win in extra innings the White Sox found themselves locked in a pitchers duel between Ryan Weathers and Sean Burke. Burke managed to fire six scoreless innings while racking up 10 strikeouts before passing the baton to the White Sox bullpen.
The first run of the game didn’t come until the 10th inning, but Andrew Benintendi responded with an RBI single in the bottom half of the inning. An inning later the White Sox loaded the bases, bringing Tristan Peters to the plate with two outs. Peters proceeded to watch four consecutive balls to force in the winning run.
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It marked the White Sox ninth walk-off win of the season and, more importantly, preserved their lead atop the AL Central standings.
On Wednesday, the White Sox needed a late comeback, a fortunate break and a little bit of magic to snap their two-game skid after Yankees Cam Schlittler held Chicago’s offense to just one hit through the first six innings.
The Bronx Bombers jumped on Davis Martin early, scoring four runs in the first inning. But to Martin’s credit, he gutted through a 106-pitch outing despite not having his best stuff, settling in to throw five consecutive scoreless innings after the rocky start.
His effort kept the White Sox within striking distance until the offense finally broke through in the seventh inning.
Benintendi got the rally started with an RBI double down the line, and Sam Antonacci cut the deficit to one an inning later with a two-run homer to right field. One pitch later, Munetaka Murakami followed with some power of his own, muscling a Paul Blackburn curveball over the left-center field wall to tie the game with back-to-back home runs.
But the roller coaster ride was far from over. The White Sox were down to their final out in the bottom of the 11th inning when Yankees catcher Ali Sánchez’s errant pickoff attempt ended up in left field, allowing Murakami to scamper home from third and tie the game at five.
Jordan Hicks then needed a high-wire escape in the top of the 12th, working out of a bases-loaded jam to keep the game tied and give the offense another opportunity.
Chase Meidroth started the winning rally by laying down a sacrifice bunt to move Tristan Peters to third base, setting up Edgar Quero for a soft single into center field that scored Peters and delivered his second walk-off hit of the season. Despite being sent down midway through the year, the recently recalled Quero is now the only White Sox player with multiple walk-off hits this season.
