South Siders scold Kansas City in a 4-1 flex
Does a home run count if the hitter doesn’t know he hit a homer?
If so, it’s only fair the White Sox won this game, as both players who tilted long balls out knew it — even mighty mite Chase Meidroth, whose homer barely did eclipse the fence against a stiff wind in from left:
Before that, and providing what held up as the game-winner today, Tim Elko had his first career multi-hit game, including a two-run blast in his first at-bat:
Meanwhile Vinny Pasquantino, who led off the scoring with a solo blast he seemed to think he had missed on, jogged the bases in disbelief.
Otherwise, the story of this game was as advertised, a pitchers’ duel only sullied by the fact that Royals hurler Michael Wacha followed up his best outing of 2025 with an effort that started out as a laborious slog. By the end of their six-inning outings, Wacha and Chisox starter Adrian Houser read similarly, save for the one-homer difference in the game for the Good Guys.
And it wasn’t just Houser who impressed among White Sox arms. Cam Booser lingered nicely around the zone for a painless, one-hit seventh. Steven Wilson took the eighth and faced down the teeth of the K.C. order, yielding a walk to Maikel Garcia and a single muscled by Pasquantino but otherwise whiffing three.
In the category of things you just don’t expect to see often in a White Sox game, the Chicago offense proved resilient, if inefficient. Traffic ran 10 runners onto the bases (nine hits, one walk) but all but one run came home on big flies. That run was of the insurance variety, in the eighth, courtesy of singles from Miguel Vargas and Kyle Teel and a sac fly from Edgar Quero.
Dan Altavilla, cut loose to closer in just several short days, came on to earn his first save in five years and second career overall, to keep the White Sox on a roll.
Futility Watch
At the moment with a 22-43 record, the White Sox have fallen out of the worst 100 starts to an MLB season (tied for 107th-worst now) and thus we’ll simmer down the watch.
And finally:
