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The Chicago White Sox secured a narrow 5-4 victory against the Washington Nationals, rallying late in the game. Munetaka Murakami contributed with a solo home run in the fourth inning.
Did Munetaka Murakami homer on Friday? YUP. | (Photo by Michael Hirschuber/Getty Images)
For a second there, it seemed like South Side Sox recaps might simply turn into Munetaka Murakami home-run watches. Based on the flat start to Fridayâs game, a fairly hapless team effort against a mediocre opponent, perhaps.
But the Good Guys rallied late, scraping and scrapping their way to four runs in their final three frames to eke out the win, 5-4.
But letâs get right to the shot that stopped the fizzless White Sox offense, back in the fourth inning.
Already down, 1-0, Murakami reached a tie atop the MLB home run leaderboard with a ball that, off the bat of 99% of hitters in the game, had no business leaving the park:
Murakami left the yard on a changeup, weight fighting to stay back on the ball â and off of the end of the bat, to boot! Itâs the kind of swing you might lay out in a backyard Wiffle ball game, only Mune took his in the majors and sent it 415 feet away on 104 mph contact. The rookie is, simply, a beast.
Better, Murakamiâs homer broke a streak of 10 straight hitless at-bats against a ragtag assemblage of Nationals bullpen arms. But Washington came right back in the fifth, after a single, (another) catcherâs interference from Edgar Quero and walk packed the sacks. The lead run came home on another walk, although in starter Erick Feddeâs defense, the lead was lost on a poor check-swing call on a full count. A second Nationals run later scored on a failed 6-4-3 double play.
The White Sox won 5-4 by scoring four runs in the final three innings of the game.
Munetaka Murakami hit a solo home run in the fourth inning, which helped ignite the White Sox's offense.
The Chicago White Sox defeated the Washington Nationals with a score of 5-4.
Munetaka Murakami hit his home run in the fourth inning of the game.
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The White Sox did creep to within 3-2 (Colson Montgomery rallied to not give up on an at-bat that saw him crush an RBI single to right field with two strikes) on their own recognizance. But for all the credit due to the White Sox for rallying for the win, the game was handed to them by Washington rookie Riley Cornelio, making his MLB debut.
In the bottom of the seventh, Cornelio entered the game and might as well have pulled his shirt up over his head and shouted FIRE FIRE, as his meltdown inning started with two walks (the second particularly egregious given Luisangel Acuña was showing sac bunt as early as possible) and was secured by throwing a Tristan Peters sac bunt into right field:
Then, with the score tied and runners on the corners after Cornelioâs error, Andrew Benintendi clubbed a sac fly to give the White Sox a 4-3 lead.
Tee-hee, the White Sox held the lead for two pitches in the eighth before Jordan Leasure room-serviced a slider to Brady House to knot the game back up.
For some reason, Cornelio came back out for the eighth, and though slightly more composed still handed the lead right back. Miguel Vargas hustled out an infield single to start things, chased by a Montgomery walk on pitches that werenât close. Quero sacrificed the runners over (on another ball that the rookie almost threw away), and eventual winning margin came home on another battling at-bat from Sam Antonacci that ended in a deep fly to left for a sacrifice fly:
Seranthony DomĂnguez flirted with another tie in the game, but left a runner on third base after a one-out double and productive ground out by muscling up for a game-ending K against Wâs slugger James Wood:
The White Sox improved to 11-15, and 5-5 in their last 10 games. Tomorrow is Noah Schultz Day, and weâll see you right back here for more scrapinâ and scrappinâ.