{"id":612161,"date":"2026-04-18T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:01:09","slug":"munetaka-murakami-hits-first-career-grand-slam-as-chicago-white-sox-beat-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612161\/","title":{"rendered":"Munetaka Murakami hits first career grand slam as Chicago White Sox beat Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Munetaka Murakami hit his first career grand slam, Davis Martin<\/a> gave up three hits over seven innings, and the Chicago White Sox<\/a> beat the Athletics<\/a> 9-2 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Murakami went 3 for 5 with singles in the third and fourth innings before his 431-foot grand slam in the seventh, the third of the season for the White Sox, who now lead the majors. It was Murakami\u2019s sixth homer of the season.<\/p>\n

The White Sox had 15 hits. A\u2019s starting pitcher Aaron Civale<\/a> (2-1) gave up a career-high 11 through 4 2\/3 innings. He threw 103 pitches and gave up five earned runs with four strikeouts and a walk. <\/p>\n

Colson Montgomery<\/a> doubled in a run in the first to get the White Sox rolling early and followed it up with an RBI single in the third. Edgar Quero<\/a> hit an RBI groundout in the third and Luisangel Acu\u00f1a and Andrew Benintendi<\/a> both hit RBI doubles in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Martin (3-1) had four strikeouts and gave up three hits, two walks and only one earned run. <\/p>\n

Nick Kurtz<\/a> hit an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth for the Athletics<\/a>, sending Shea Langeliers<\/a> home, and Andy Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez drove in Max Muncy<\/a> in the bottom of the eighth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The White Sox and Athletics<\/a> continue their three-game series on Saturday, with Erick Fedde<\/a> (0-3, 3.38 ERA) taking the mound for Chicago opposite Luis Severino<\/a> (0-2, 5.59).<\/p>\n

___ AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Munetaka Murakami hit his first career grand slam, Davis Martin gave up three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-612161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}