CHICAGO \u2014 Colson Montgomery\u2019s 26th homer, a three-run shot, capped Chicago\u2019s four-run third inning and the White Sox held on to beat the Cleveland Guardians 5-3 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Munetaka Murakami and Randal Grichuk each doubled in a run as the White Sox won their second straight, increasing their AL Central lead to 3 1\/2 games over second-place Detroit. Cleveland and Minnesota fell four games back.<\/p>\n
Brenton Doyle had two hits to help Chicago win its 61st game, one more than in 2025 when the team finished last in the American League at 60-102.<\/p>\n
Steven Kwan had two hits for the Guardians (58-61), who lost for the fifth time in six games. Kwan and Murakami extended their on-base streaks to 25 games, tied for the longest active run in the majors.<\/p>\n
The game was delayed by rain for 2 hours, 23 minutes, after the first inning with the Guardians ahead 2-1. Both managers replaced their starters \u2014 Chicago\u2019s Davis Martin and Cleveland\u2019s Joey Cantillo \u2014 when play resumed.<\/p>\n
White Sox left-hander Hagen Smith took over in the second, making his major league debut. Smith (1-0) tossed two scoreless innings for the win, but walked the bases loaded in the third before Brayan Rocchio lined out to third to end the threat.<\/p>\n
Trevor Richards, the sixth Chicago reliever, allowed a run in the ninth on two walks and Jos\u00e9 Ramirez’s sacrifice fly, but earned his third career save and first this season.<\/p>\n
Cleveland lefty Tim Herrin entered in the bottom of the second, followed by Craig Yoho with two outs in the third. Yoho (2-1) allowed four runs on two hits and four walks while getting only one out.<\/p>\n
After Grichuk\u2019s double down the left-field line tied it at 2, Montgomery lined a cutter to right to put Chicago ahead 5-2.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Guardians: RHP Tanner Bibee (4-11, 3.85 ERA) faces Tigers RHP Drew Anderson (4-4, 4.01) on Tuesday in Detroit.<\/p>\n
White Sox: RHP Sean Burke (7-6, 3.08 ERA) starts against Cincinnati LHP Nick Lodolo (3-2, 4.60) on Tuesday in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Colson Montgomery\u2019s 26th homer, a three-run shot, capped Chicago\u2019s four-run third inning and the White Sox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,363,3,6454,90616,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-809104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809104","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=809104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}