White Sox Deliver Thrilling Comeback Win When They Need It Most
Edgar Quero delivered a walk-off single in the 12th inning as the White Sox erased multiple deficits to prevail in a pivotal game against the New York Yankees.
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Sam Phelan here with the White Sox Roundtable after the White Sox win what you could call a must-win game.
It truly feels like the White Sox needed to win one on Wednesday night.
Maybe not in a literal sense.
Win or lose, we would be waking up on Thursday morning with a first-place White Sox team regardless.
But if there was ever a game that felt like a must-win from a momentum standpoint, it was Wednesday night against the Yankees.
The White Sox had lost four of their last five, top players struggling since the All-Star break, and the AL Central getting crowded at the top.
One-and-a-half game lead over the Guardians, two over the Twins, five over the Tigers now.
We know the White Sox, yes, are going to make additions at the trade deadline, but playing well, keeping yourself atop the division in the meantime is essential, and it wouldn't come easy.
The White Sox had a match up with Yankees' Cam Schlittler, the current odds-on favorite to win the AL Cy Young Award, entering Wednesday with a ten and six record and an AL best two-zero-seven ERA.
Out of the gate, it seemed like the White Sox were doomed.
Like, the White Sox were in for a long night.
A three-run home run for Spencer Jones in the top of the first had the Yankees jumping all over Davis Martin out to a four to nothing lead.
Schlittler was cruising.
First six innings, eight strikeouts, no runs allowed.
You could hear a pin drop at Rate Field.
But then the White Sox started chipping away.
They added a run-off Schlittler on an RBI double from Andrew Benintendi.
Still, though, weren't able to take advantage of runners in scoring position with less than two outs, and, it felt like they were missing opportunities.
Then the power bats came alive.
Two-run home run from Sam Antonacci.
Next pitch, home run for Munetaka Murakami.
White Sox tie the game at four.
They got it to extra innings.
Even in the bottom of the tenth, though, it's like pulling teeth with this White Sox team.
They had more work to do.
The, the White Sox had a runner on third and nobody out.
A fly ball wins the game.
Edgar Caro, Randall Gri-Grichuk both failed to get the job done.
Munetaka Murakami strikes out to end the inning.
The Yankees score in the top of the eleventh.
The White Sox blow multiple opportunities again for situational hitting.
And then Yankees catcher Ali Sanchez made a donation, generously throwing the ball into left field to allow the tying run to score.
Munetaka Murakami crosses the plate.
White Sox tie the game.
In the twelfth, Jordan Hicks, thirty pitches, twenty-six over a hundred miles per hour.
Twenty-six of his thirty, he was touching one oh two.
He worked his way out of a bases loaded jam, ice in his veins.
Then all Edgar Caro had to do in the twelfth was make some contact.
He did it.
He blooped a single into center field.
The White Sox win in walk-off fashion and in comeback fashion, snapping a streak.
It had been over a month since the White Sox won a game after going behind after the fifth inning.
They had not been those comeback kids we saw earlier in the season.
It had been eleven games.
That's all over now.
They win a game that they needed to win.
Now they have an opportunity to split the series with the Yankees.
They've got Sean Burke going on Thursday afternoon, in another big game.
But it feels good just to get one, to get the monkey off your back a little bit, to, put one in the win column and gain some momentum.
Look, I know that every game is not do or die.
It is a marathon, not a sprint.
But when you look back on one sixty-two, every win is gonna matter, especially in the AL Central, a division where it could come down to a couple of games.
This is going to be a tight race for the long haul.
Every White Sox win that they're able to win in this fashion could be the difference between making the playoffs and sitting and watching the postseason at home.
So they seemed to be on life support, in the seventh inning on Wednesday.
Now, the White Sox have a healthy heartbeat, a lot of momentum, a lot of hope, and the trade deadline right around the corner to potentially have some help on the way.
