{"id":812425,"date":"2026-08-13T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:16:12","slug":"chicago-white-sox-blank-the-cincinnati-reds-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812425\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox blank the Cincinnati Reds 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Luis Castillo struck out 10 in seven sparkling innings, helping the Chicago White Sox beat Rhett Lowder and the Cincinnati Reds 5-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Castillo allowed one hit \u2014 Sal Stewart’s single in the first \u2014 and walked two in his first win with Chicago. The right-hander, acquired in an Aug. 1 trade<\/a> with Seattle, was tagged for five runs over four innings in his White Sox debut at Boston last week.<\/p>\n

Castillo (4-9) matched his longest outing of the season one day after Chicago blew a 4-0 lead during a 5-4 loss<\/a> in the series opener.<\/p>\n

Chase Meidroth and Drew Romo homered as the AL Central leaders won for the third time in four games. Sam Antonacci had three hits.<\/p>\n

Lowder (4-8) was charged with two runs and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings. The right-hander is 1-1 with a 3.22 ERA in his last four starts.<\/p>\n

Lowder was pulled after Colson Montgomery’s single in the sixth. Meidroth greeted Julian Garcia with a drive to left field for his 12th homer, giving the White Sox a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Romo went deep in the third, capping a 10-pitch at-bat with his first homer since May 25 and No. 6 on the year. He also singled home Montgomery in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Castillo, who began his big league career with Cincinnati in 2017, helped himself with a nice play on TJ Friedl’s two-out bunt in the fifth. Tristan Peters also made a leaping catch at the wall on Matt McLain’s drive to left-center in the third.<\/p>\n

Hagen Smith handled the eighth for Chicago before Huascar Brazob\u00e1n finished the two-hitter.<\/p>\n

White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami extended his on-base streak to 27 games with a two-out walk in the fifth. He is tied with Cleveland’s Steven Kwan for the longest active streak in the majors.<\/p>\n

Up next\n<\/p>\n

Left-hander Andrew Abbott (6-7, 3.92 ERA) starts for Cincinnati in Thursday’s series finale, and right-hander Davis Martin (9-6, 4.17) pitches for Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Luis Castillo struck out 10 in seven sparkling innings, helping the Chicago White Sox beat Rhett Lowder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,15056,363,3,6454,100813,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-812425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812425","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=812425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}