Tristan Peters turned a 7-1 White Sox loss into a personal milestone by breaking up Yoshinobu Yamamoto 's no-hit bid with a ninth-inning home run.
Yamamoto took a perfect game into the eighth and a no-hitter into the ninth at Rate Field.
Then a former Savannah Banana became the only Chicago hitter who refused to let history finish cleanly.
Peters led off the ninth by driving Yamamoto's pitch down the right-field line for his third MLB home run, ending both the no-hitter and the shutout.
Yamamoto was still outstanding. He worked 8.1 innings, allowed one hit and one earned run, walked nobody, and struck out seven on a season-high 109 pitches, improving to 7-4 with a 2.52 ERA.
His perfect-game bid had already ended in the eighth, when Chase Meidroth reached on a Mookie Betts error with two outs. Betts otherwise went 3-for-5 with three runs, Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer and walked three times, and Max Muncy went 3-for-3 with two homers, two walks, four RBI, and two runs.
Yamamoto had also stretched his streak of consecutive batters retired to 45, tying Mark Buehrle for second in MLB history behind Yusmeiro Petit .
For Peters, the swing fit a strong first full White Sox season. He is hitting .299 with three homers, 21 RBI, 15 doubles, four steals, and an .818 OPS, while handling most of his work in center field.
Peters' path was far from straightforward. Born in Winkler, Manitoba, he played at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, earning an NJCAA Gold Glove, before transferring to Southern Illinois, where he hit .355 with 20 doubles, six home runs, and 55 RBI in 2021.
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That same summer, Peters played for the Savannah Bananas in their Coastal Plain League era. He was drafted by the Brewers in the seventh round, later moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco in the Trevor Rosenthal trade, then from the Giants to Tampa Bay for Brett Wisely.
He debuted with the Rays in 2025, was designated for assignment that winter, and moved to the White Sox for cash in December.
Peters is not the only Banana to reach MLB. Beau Sulser became the first in 2022 with the Pirates, Rylan Bannon followed with the Orioles, and Cade Povich later made it with Baltimore after pitching for Savannah in 2020.
That makes Peters' homer more than just a footnote. It was a reminder that the Bananas' old development pipeline is still producing players who deliver in big moments.
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