CHICAGO -- The White Sox followed up a 4-3 walk-off victory over Cleveland on Monday night at Guaranteed Rate Field by playing “Who was the biggest hero?” during their postgame Zoom sessions with reporters.

There was reliever Evan Marshall, who entered in the sixth inning with the bases loaded, nobody out and a 3-2 lead and allowed only one run, on a Franmil Reyes sacrifice fly.

Let’s not forget fellow reliever Codi Heuer, who recorded a career high in strikeouts at four and innings pitched at 2 1/3 without giving up a run.

Adam Eaton provided all the offense till the end with a three-run homer in the third inning, his third long ball of the season.

Even Yasmani Grandal’s head deserves a mention. With runners on first and second and one out in the ninth, first baseman Yu Chang’s throw to second on Nick Williams’ potential double-play grounder ricocheted off Grandal’s helmet and allowed pinch-runner Nick Madrigal to score the winning run from second.

“Did it carom off the helmet?” asked a smiling White Sox manager Tony La Russa of the deciding play. “That’s about time we caught one of those breaks.”

“I’ve never seen that happen in that sequence,” Marshall said.

But if this were hockey and the White Sox were looking for the game’s No. 1 star, that honor has to go to Dallas Keuchel. The veteran left-hander was scheduled to start Wednesday in Game 3 of the series, but he was notified two hours before first pitch he would instead be taking the spot of Carlos Rodón, who was scratched with a stomach issue.

Keuchel last pitched Wednesday in Seattle, so he was working on regular rest. He also had thrown a bullpen [session] on Sunday, although not an extensive one, and he had virtually no time to prepare.

Those roadblocks didn’t stop Keuchel from working five-plus innings and retiring 12 straight after Eddie Rosario’s two-run home run in the second. He left with the bases loaded in the sixth, but the lefty did all he could to help the White Sox (5-5) claim their first one-run victory this season and end a six-game losing streak against Cleveland.

“You've got to do what you've got to do sometimes. We've been taxing the ‘pen a lot, so I felt like I was trying to do the best I could,” said Keuchel, who struck out two, walked two and threw 68 pitches. “Very fortunate to get through five and definitely ran out of gas there in the sixth. None of the pitches in the sixth were even very competitive.”

“To me, the biggest hero of the night is Keuchel,” La Russa said. “Pitching when he didn’t expect to and getting through five like that … to me, he’s the biggest hero of this win.”

Marshall’s biggest pitch in place of Keuchel was a swinging strikeout recorded against José Ramirez, when the right-hander used a 92.2 mph four-seamer up in the zone for the inning’s first out. Marshall worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings before giving way to Aaron Bummer, who struck out one before yielding to Heuer.

Heuer threw only four pitches on Sunday, so he was ready to be pushed. The only baserunner he allowed was Josh Naylor on a two-out double in the ninth, but Roberto Perez struck out to end the frame.

“Tonight was great. You saw the best version of us,” said Marshall of the bullpen, which entered with five losses and four blown saves on the season. “Codi was amazing. He has never been in three ups before and went out there and shoved it against a very very good team. That’s a well-coached team and a good lineup. There will be a lot of battles that go to the wire like tonight.”

“Getting three ups out of the bullpen can be a challenge,” Heuer said. “I was efficient, body felt great. So, honestly, there was no doubt in my mind. I'll keep throwing until it falls off."

None of this was possible, though, without Keuchel, who has never received such late notice before a start. While he appreciated the hero-of-the-night talk from his manager and teammates, he simply looked at the evening as doing his job.

“I try to do everything I can, more to help myself out because I want to be the best pitcher I possibly can,” Keuchel said. “But also in times like this, the rarity is to step up and fill in the void, especially when the bullpen has been taxed. [Michael] Kopech pitched three innings yesterday, so that was out of the equation.

“Garrett [Crochet] pitched in extra innings, so there wasn’t really anybody else to lengthen the game. So that is where I came into play. Outside of the sixth inning, the game went extremely well. I was able to attack. It was nice of Tony to say that, but I’m never one to get recognition for something I’m supposed to do anyway.”