{"id":866725,"date":"2026-10-01T05:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866725\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:46:22","slug":"yankees-and-white-sox-advance-phillies-survive-in-mlb-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866725\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees and White Sox advance, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox powered into the second round of the Major League Baseball playoffs on Wednesday as the Philadelphia Phillies produced a late home-run bombardment to stay alive against the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

The Yankees wrapped up a 2-0 wildcard series over the Boston Red Sox with an emphatic 9-2 win at Yankee Stadium and will face top seeds Tampa Bay in the next round.<\/p>\n

The White Sox — who received a letter of support from lifelong fan Pope Leo XIV before their series with Houston — fended off a spirited Astros to win 7-3 in Texas.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia meanwhile came from behind to snatch a 4-3 extra-inning victory over the Braves in Atlanta that squared their series at one apiece, with the decider on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Chicago’s defeat of the Astros was the latest stop on what has been a remarkable turnaround for the club, who suffered 100 defeats or more in three consecutive campaigns before this season.<\/p>\n

Chase Meidroth’s three-run homer sealed victory for the White Sox, who will face Cleveland in the American League division series.<\/p>\n

“That’s everything, man. Coming through for the guys, there’s no better feeling in the world,” said Meidroth.<\/p>\n

After racing into an early 4-0 lead, Chicago saw Houston close to within a run after solo homers from Jeremy Pena, Cam Smith and Jose Altuve each walloped solo home runs in the first, second and fourth innings.<\/p>\n

But Meidroth’s three-run blast snuffed out the Astros fightback.<\/p>\n

The Yankees followed up their 9-0 defeat of Boston on Tuesday with another thumping win in the Bronx to set up their division series duel with Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Outfielder Cody Bellinger produced the moment of the match launching a three-run homer-run in a six-run sixth inning that put the Yankees into an 8-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Philadelphia stayed afloat after their thrilling 4-3 defeat of Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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\n In a dramatic comeback, Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper hit back-to-back homers in the eighth to equalize before Alec Bohm’s game-winning home run in the 10th inning.<\/p>\n

“I don’t really know what happened,” Bohm said. “I was trying to pull the ball to the foul pole and I hit it to right field so I’ll take it.”<\/p>\n

The series winner plays the reigning MLB champion Los Angeles Dodgers in a best-of-five series starting Saturday.<\/p>\n

Phillies outfielder Harper, who fluffed a routine catch in the seventh inning allowing Atlanta to seize the lead, found redemption in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Harper followed Schwarber’s homer off Dylan Lee with his own solo shot to level at 3-3 and the game went to extra innings.<\/p>\n

Harper said when he came to the plate he was thinking: “I’ve got to come up big.”<\/p>\n

“That ball in right field I probably should have caught obviously, so got to come through for my team right there,” Harper said. “Great win.”<\/p>\n

In the dramatic 10th, Bohm blasted a two-out homer for the winning run. But it was not over, with the Braves yet to bat.<\/p>\n

Phillies relief pitcher Andrew Painter, in his playoff debut, allowed two singles as tension built, but struck out pinch-hitter Dominic Smith to secure victory.<\/p>\n

Later Thursday the San Diego Padres will aim to wrap up a series victory over the Chicago Cubs in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox powered into the second round of the Major League Baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-866725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866725","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=866725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}