CHICAGO – The White Sox didn’t get their first hit Sunday until two outs in the fourth inning of their series finale against the Dodgers at Rate Field, in front of their third straight sellout crowd and sixth of the season.
They had one hit over their last 16 innings through the fifth, factoring in Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s brush with perfection on Saturday. And then the sixth inning arrived.
Six straight hits off Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan and reliever Jack Dreyer, including three home runs, quickly provided the impetus to turn a one-run deficit into a 6-4 victory. The White Sox finished this homestand against the Braves and the Dodgers with a 4-1 record, improving to 20-4 over their last 24 games at Rate Field.
With Cleveland’s game against Detroit postponed due to rain Sunday, the White Sox (38-32) head to New York tied atop the American League Central. In reality, the White Sox rode two big innings over the three games against the Dodgers (45-27), scoring seven in the fifth on Friday before their six-run uprising Sunday.
But that output was enough to take a series from the two-time defending World Series champion for the first time since 2014.
“I wouldn’t say we were saying, ‘Oh my gosh, we are going to get no-hit again,’ or maybe get close,” said shortstop Colson Montgomery, who had two hits Sunday. “We stayed on our attack and that’s what [White Sox manager] Will [Venable] and everyone preaches. Play our game and stay on the attack.”
“It's good just for the team,” said right-hander Erick Fedde, who improved to 2-5 as the second bulk hurler behind opener Bryan Hudson. “Obviously a big series, it's been a tough stretch. Just keeps the confidence growing.”
During this revelation of a season, the White Sox have been good at minimizing damage on the pitching and defensive side to give the power-packed offense a chance to fight back. Once that door to victory is slightly ajar, the White Sox knock it off the hinges.
Sunday’s ignition came from Sam Antonacci, who started the sixth-inning power burst with his first career over-the-fence home run, joining the inside-the-park homer he hit in Arizona. Antonacci’s blast came on an 0-2 pitch.
Miguel Vargas followed with a single and his 10th stolen base, coming home on Andrew Benintendi’s double. Dreyer replaced Sheehan, and Montgomery, who doubled for the South Siders’ first hit, launched a 410-foot drive for his 17th home run.
Braden Montgomery singled and Chase Meidroth homered to right. That home run for Meidroth was the first opposite-field homer of his career.
“We all feed off that energy and that spark of something happening,” Colson Montgomery said. “It could have been someone getting a hit and stealing, but then it was just Sammy hitting a homer and tying the game up. That was what we needed. Everyone in the dugout kind of had a feeling once we tied it up and hit the homer that we were going to scrap out a win somehow.”
“We’ve done a great job all year of just never giving in,” Meidroth said. “It’s one through nine, it’s for nine innings. We’re going to come at you every single day. If we’re getting no-hit through the first five, then we’re going to bring the sticks in the last four. It’s not about which inning you do it in. It’s all about just playing all nine.”
Meidroth made a key defensive play behind Seranthony Domínguez, preventing all nine from going to extra innings or even a defeat. His sliding grab of Andy Pages’ grounder up the middle, with runners on first and second and one out, turned into a force at second.
Freddie Freeman, who homered in the first inning and represented the go-ahead run, struck out to finish off the White Sox eighth straight series win at home. During Spring Training, the Dodgers and White Sox are located a five-minute walk away from each other at the Camelback Ranch complex they share in Glendale, Ariz.
These two teams have rarely been compared over the past three seasons, aside from the fact they are both part of MLB. But with 92 games to play, it’s time people accept the 2026 White Sox as one of the top teams in the game.
“Very different team. Very good team,” said Dodgers bench coach and acting manager Danny Lehmann. “It’s a different team this series than it was last year and the year before that. So kudos to them.”
“You should stop thinking of us as a surprise just because we are consistently winning, consistently in every game,” Montgomery said. “It doesn’t matter what team it is, we are not going to overlook them. We are going to play our ball. Those days [of being a surprise] are kind of over.”