{"id":618923,"date":"2026-05-02T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618923\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:49:08","slug":"murakami-hits-majors-leading-13th-homer-white-sox-beat-padres-8-2-for-4th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618923\/","title":{"rendered":"Murakami hits majors-leading 13th homer, White Sox beat Padres 8-2 for 4th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2050400624093610481\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Munetaka Murakami hit his majors-leading 13th homer<\/a> of the season to highlight a six-run second inning, Colson Montgomery added his ninth home run, and the Chicago White Sox beat the San Diego Padres 8-2 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Murakami&#8217;s three-run shot broke a tie with the Aaron Judge and Yordan Alavarez for the MLB lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitesox\/status\/2050411353249022204\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montgomery&#8217;s<\/a> blast in the fifth gave Chicago its 14th multi-homer game of the season and a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Murakami and Montgomery homered in the same game for the seventh time this season. It&#8217;s the most by any teammate duo in their team&#8217;s first 35 games of a season in MLB history, according to Elias and Sarah Langs.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago starter Noah Schultz (2-1) allowed just two hits, struck out two and walked three in six scoreless innings. He got out of a bases-loaded jam in the first after walking three.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Antonacci went 2 for 4 with an RBI for the White Sox. <\/p>\n<p>San Diego&#8217;s first hit came on a single by Fernando Tatis Jr. in the third. He tripled for the first time this season in the sixth for their second hit. But Chicago right fielder Austin Hays made a catch near the foul line, while falling down, to end the sixth and keep Tatis at third. <\/p>\n<p>Tatis finished 3 for 3 and scored one of two San Diego runs in the eighth on a single by Manny Machado. <\/p>\n<p>German Marquez (3-2) permitted seven earned runs and five hits over five innings. The Padres were 4-1 in his previous five starts this season, including winners in his last four.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres had won 17 of their last 23 games. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago RHP Sean Burke (1-2, 3.21 ERA) was scheduled to start Saturday against RHP Michael King (3-1, 2.41).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munetaka Murakami hit his majors-leading 13th homer of the season to highlight a six-run second inning, Colson Montgomery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,157,2318,13090,363,7155,2328,99],"class_list":["post-618923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}