{"id":915359,"date":"2026-10-04T02:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915359\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T02:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:50:16","slug":"munetaka-murakami-powers-white-sox-to-victory-in-game-1-of-alds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915359\/","title":{"rendered":"Munetaka Murakami powers White Sox to victory in Game 1 of ALDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland \u2013 Munetaka Murakami belted a two-run homer off All-Star Parker Messick and five pitchers combined on a three-hitter as the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 in Game 1 of the AL Division Series on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 Tarik Skubal dominated over six innings while three home runs powered the offense in a 5-3 victory over the visiting Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of their NL Division Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Murakami, a 26-year-old\u00a0from Japan in his first MLB season, hammered a 440-foot shot to right field off Messick in the fourth inning. His first postseason homer \u2014\u00a0and 36th overall this year \u2014\u00a0plated Miguel Vargas to put the White Sox up 2-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland \u2013 Munetaka Murakami belted a two-run homer off All-Star Parker Messick and five pitchers combined on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5256,5258,591,64736,128516,85],"class_list":["post-915359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915359","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=915359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}