RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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CHICAGO — Tristan Peters drew a walk-off bases-loaded walk in the 11th inning Thursday, giving the Chicago White Sox a 2-1 victory against the New York Yankees in front of 29,384 at Rate Field.
“It’s an interesting way to walk it off,” Peters said. “Any way does the job.”
It was the second straight walk-off win in extra innings for the Sox, who earned a split of the four-game series. And with the victory, the first-place Sox (57-51) extended their lead in the American League to two games over the idle Cleveland Guardians (56-54).
Here are three takeaways from Thursday.
1. Nine wasn’t enough — again.
The teams played late into the night Wednesday, going 12 innings before Edgar Quero’s walk-off single gave the Sox a 6-5 victory.
The teams were right back at it Thursday afternoon with another extended contest.
There was no score through nine innings. The Yankees struck first in the 10th with a Trent Grisham RBI single. The Sox answered in the bottom of the 10th with pinch hitter Andrew Benintendi’s RBI single on a grounder through the drawn-in infield.
“To be honest I was trying to hit a fly ball, hit it to the outfield and kind of got away with it,” Benintendi said.
The Yankees had runners on second and third with two outs in the 11th, but Sox reliever Seranthony Domínguez escaped the jam by inducing a groundout.
“I want to highlight Seranthony and the job he did as a guy who has changed roles a little bit and has worked his way back and came through in a huge spot,” manager Will Venable said. “That’s as big as it gets right there, runner on third base and got the job done.”
The Sox loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the 11th. Fernando Cruz struck out Colson Montgomery. But Peters then drew the four-pitch walk to bring in Chase Meidroth with the game-ending run.
“It’s tough to be patient, especially you want to be that guy to walk it off, get a walk-off hit,” Peters said. “Especially with that pitcher, we’ve seen him before. He’s one of those types you’ve really got to be patient.
“His splitter is really nasty. That’s what I was expecting him to throw me. I was just going to tighten up the zone to shrink it and try to get my pitch.”
The Sox have nine walk-off wins this season.
“A tough offensive day leading up to that where (Yankees starter Ryan) Weathers did a really good job getting us to expand below the zone, a lot of soft ground balls that we saw today,” Venable said. “We just kept grinding. We had to find ways to push a couple across and just the willingness to go out and get it done was the difference today.”
2. Sean Burke wrapped up an impressive July in spectacular fashion.
The first two batters of Thursday’s game reached via catcher’s interference and a walk.
Sox starter Sean Burke shook off the early traffic, striking out the next two hitters and getting a groundout to end the inning.
“Just being able to get through that and settle in and continue with the game plan was good,” Burke said.
Burke missed bats for most of his outing, striking out 10 over six scoreless innings. The right-hander allowed three hits and walked two in the 91-pitch performance.
“Burke was outstanding,” Venable said. “The fastball, again, is working for him. Just a ton of confidence with it, just in the zone. He’s getting swing-and-miss with it, really opening up everything else.
“Really good cutter. Just really good stuff from (Burke).”
Burke wrapped up an impressive July in which he had a 1.14 ERA in five starts, striking out 45 in the span of 31 2/3 innings.
“I just feel good with all my stuff right now,” Burke said. “And I think the game plans coming in have been good, just talking with the catchers and the coaches have made my life a little bit easier. When you have confidence in all your stuff, it’s a little bit easier to game plan and just more ways to get guys out.”
3. The Sox learned lessons that could help down the road.
The resiliency of the 2026 Sox was on display in this series. After losing 9-5 on Monday and 3-2 on Tuesday and being limited to one hit through six innings Wednesday, the Sox found ways to split the four-game series.
“You lose the first two of four, it’s like, let’s grab at least one,” Benintendi said. “But winning two in a row, especially against a team like that, against the arms they have, it shows a lot about what we have in here.”
Peters said the Sox showed the ability to remain focused on the daily tasks.
“Going down two in a series is tough, but taking it day by day is the only way we can do that,” Peters said. “If we’re focused on those two losses, that just makes it build up.
“Our group, we’re really good at locking in just for the day.”
It’s one of those series in which the lessons could be helpful down the road.
“Contributions from everybody,” Venable said. “Extra innings, there’s a ton of situational stuff that you have to execute. And the guys really executed well.”
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