White Sox 12-3 Astros (Jul 26, 2026) Game Recap
CHICAGO — — Munetaka Murakami homered twice and drove in a season-high six runs; Miguel Vargas, Chase Meidroth and Junior Perez additionally went deep because the Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros 12-3 on Sunday to keep away from a collection sweep.
With his mother and father in attendance and on his bobblehead giveaway day, Murakami hit a 385-foot, two-run homer on the backside of the primary that gave Chicago its first lead of the sport. It was his first homer since May twenty seventh. He added a go-ahead, RBI groundout within the third inning and a two-run single within the seventh. He closed out his three-hit sport together with his twenty second homer of the season — a solo shot — to right-center within the eighth.
Vargas hit his twenty second homer of the season within the sixth — a go-ahead, two-run shot to place the White Sox again on high 5-3. Meidroth adopted within the seventh with a solo shot to interrupt the sport open. Perez hit his third homer of the season 376 ft to left within the eighth.
Andrew Benintendi had an RBI single within the seventh for a 9-3 lead.
Sean Newcomb (1-2) picked up his first win of the season after permitting one hit in two-thirds of an inning. Erick Fedde He labored 4 1/3 innings at the beginning and surrendered three runs on 5 hits whereas placing out two.
Ronel Blanco (0-1), making his second begin of the 12 months, permitting 5 runs on 4 hits in 5 1/3 innings. Houston used 4 pitchers within the sport, and all allowed a minimum of two runs.
Jeremy Peña hit two solo homers for Houston — one within the first for a 1-0 lead and one other within the third. Taylor Trammell added a solo homer within the fifth inning.
Houston had its five-game win streak halted.
White Sox LHP Noah Schultz (3-7, 6.04 ERA) takes the mound towards the Yankees on Monday. The Yankees haven’t introduced a starter.
The Astros haven’t introduced a starter for his or her collection opener towards the Angels on Monday. Host Los Angeles has not named its starter.
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