This wasn't a series so much as a home run derby with defense attached. The White Sox came into Comerica Park facing the team with the best run differential in the American League and their own division lead down to 2.5 games, and they answered by turning every game into a slugfest. It started Friday night when Tristan Peters, a guy who was hitting.301 with an.832 OPS before the break and made the All-Star team on the back of a wild breakout year, tied things up with a two-run blast that got barstoolWSD and the Barstool baseball crew buzzing in real time.
Tristian Peters how bout it! https://t.co/8cofK4id48
Peters wasn't done, and neither was the lineup behind him. Munetaka Murakami — the Japanese rookie third baseman who's led the AL in homers for stretches of his debut season on a two-year, $34 million deal — put the White Sox ahead an inning later, and Barstool Chicago made sure everyone knew who did it.
MUNE PUTS THE GOOD GUYS IN FRONT https://t.co/YyQNn32adW
By the time Chicago finished off the win Friday, whitesoxdave was crediting Hagen Smith to close out a wild 9th and thanking a starter he'd been trash-talking earlier that day. Saturday was tighter — a 4-3 grind where dave was already needling Colson Montgomery and Spencer Torkelson's foot speed and calling out a blown call at first — but the White Sox found a way, and dave declared the series "ovaaa" a night early, with a promise to "cut their throats" in the finale.
Sunday was the exclamation point. With Chicago holding what had ballooned into a 4.5-game AL Central lead and a 5-3 edge in the season series, Murakami went deep again in the 7th inning to put the Sox back in front, and Miguel Vargas — the third baseman the Sox got from the Dodgers back in a 2024 deadline deal who's quietly turned into one of the better hitters at his position — added the insurance run White Sox fans had been begging for.
The 7-5 final completed the sweep, and whitesoxdave's morning-after tweet named the guys he felt deserved the credit: Sammy "Cold Cuts" Antonacci, Peters and Chase Meidroth, with a running joke that Meidroth still needs a nickname of his own.
Sammy “Cold Cuts” Antonacci, Tristan Peters and Chase Meidroth are largely to thank for this Btw Meidroth needs a nickname
None of it came cleanly — dave also flagged a bad throw from Daz Cameron that led to some bad luck in the finale, and there was real concern about Colson Montgomery looking lost at the plate even while he's found a few clutch hits this series. But sweeping Detroit is exactly the kind of statement a first-place team wants heading into the Crosstown Classic, with the White Sox opening a three-game set at Wrigley Field on Monday looking to keep the good vibes rolling against the Cubs.