{"id":754454,"date":"2026-06-23T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754454\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:07:11","slug":"sam-antonaccis-walk-off-two-run-single-in-ninth-lifts-white-sox-over-guardians-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754454\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Antonacci&#8217;s walk-off two-run single in ninth lifts White Sox over Guardians 6-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitesox\/status\/2069252056410403069?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Antonacci had a walk-off<\/a>\u00a0two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning after Cleveland scored twice in the top half to take the lead and the Chicago White Sox beat the Guardians 6-5 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Braden Montgomery drew a one-out walk off Cade Smith (2-1) to start the White Sox rally and Tristan Peters followed with a double. Smith struck out pinch hitter Jacob Gonzalez before Antonacci delivered Chicago&#8217;s sixth walk-off win of the season, tied for most in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago (40-37) snapped a three-game losing streak and pulled into a first-place tie with Cleveland (41-38) in the AL Central. The Guardians have lost 11 of their last 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland scored three runs off reliever Glenn Taylor in the seventh to tie it 3-all and spoil a strong start by Anthony Kay. The left-hander retired 10 in a row before walking Kyle Manzardo with two outs in the sixth. Kay struck out Gabriel Arias on his career-high 101st pitch to keep it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Randall\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CHSN_WhiteSox\/status\/2069231831698804915?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Grichuk gave Chicago a 3-0 lead<\/a>\u00a0in the bottom of the sixth with his eighth homer \u2014 a leadoff pinch-hit shot to left field off Tim Herrin after starter Gavin Williams struck out eight and allowed two runs on five hits in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor loaded the bases in the seventh before surrendering a pinch-hit two-run single to Kahlil Watson. Rhys Hoskins&#8217; RBI single tied it 3-3 before Bryan Hudson entered and struck out Manzardo to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Travis Bazzana drew a leadoff walk from Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez to start the ninth before a steal and a wild pitch landed him on third. Patrick Bailey singled to tie it and Manzardo added a sacrifice fly off Chris Murphy (2-0) for a 5-4 lead. It was the fifth blown save in 17 opportunities for Dom\u00ednguez.<\/p>\n<p>White Sox catcher Kyle Teel went 0 for 4 and struck out three times in his first game since injuring his hamstring while playing for Italy in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Guardians LHP Parker Messick (7-3, 2.70) starts Tuesday opposite White Sox RHP Sean Burke (4-4, 3.89).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam\u00a0Antonacci had a walk-off\u00a0two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning after Cleveland scored twice in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5256,5258,5882,591,85],"class_list":["post-754454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}