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White Sox beat Guardians 3-0 in Game 1 of ALDS behind Murakami homer, 3-hitter · Best of: Features

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  White Sox beat Guardians three zero in games one of Ale behind
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  Murakami Homer, three hitter. This article is
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  being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Cleveland, the AP.
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  The Chicago White Sox used a major league leading eleven bullpen games
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  en route to their first postseason appearance since 2021. Manager Will Venable
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  also went with that approach to win Game One of the AL
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  Wild card series, starting a sweep at Houston. The Formula ended up
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  paying dividends again on Saturday in an AL Division Series opener against
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  Cleveland. Five Chicago pitchers combined for a three hitter and struck out
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  twelve, and Munataka Murakami hit a two run homer as the White
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  Sox beat they Guardians three zero. You go out and you have
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  a rough plan, and then the players have to go out and
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  execute. And then we were able to do that today, Venable said.
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  They're going to take their walks, and the have a dynamic offense.
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  So really important that you have guys pick each other up in
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  these situations, which we saw today. Colson Montgomery added an RBI double
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  for the White Sox, who have won nine of eleven games dating
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  to the regular season. It was the sixth White Sox postseason shutout,
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  their first since the finale of a 2005 World Series sweep of
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  Houston. Cleveland, which won its third straight AL Central title by one
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  game over the White Sox, had the bases loaded with two outs
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  the third and fourth innings, but couldn't get any runs across. Of
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  course you're frustrated when you get shut out, but I thought our
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  guys fought and battled, Guardian's manager Stephen Vogt said. With how well
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  they threw we were getting on base. We just couldn't get it
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  going early in the inning.
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  Game two is Monday afternoon at Progressive Field. The series shifts to
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  Chicago for Game 3 on Wednesday. Taylor gets first four-inning postseason save
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  since 2017. Brian Hudson, one zero, relieved starter Hagen Smith, and got
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  Chase Delauder to line out to left with the bases loaded in
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  the third to get out of the inning. The star of the
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  White Sox staff was Grant Taylor, who became the sixth pitcher in
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  MLB postseason history to work at last four innings and pick up
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  a save, the first since Houston's Lance McCullers Jr. In the twenty
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  seventeen AL Championship Series against the New York Yankees. It was some
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  of the best pitching I've ever seen. He was hitting his spots
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  left and right and just attacking hitters, Teal said. Taylor had a
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  career best six strikeouts and allowed two hits. The eight hander struck
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  out the last four guardians, including Travis Bazzana on a curveball to
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  end the game. We've kind of done that the whole year of
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  being able to hand it off to the next guy, Taylor said.
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  Other guys pitching some positions that aren't super familiar, but being able
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  to do that in the postseason was unbelievable, and you also had
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  that on the defense as well. Smith retired the first right.
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  Cleveland hitters before loaded with bases with outs in the third on
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  walks to Brian Rocchio, Stephen Kwan, and Jose Ramirez. Brian Hudson came
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  in and got Chase Delauder to line out to left. Cleveland didn't
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  get its first hit until Travis Bazzana's line drive, double down the
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  right field, line with two outs in the fourth off Anthony Kay.
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  Austin Hedges drew a walk to load the bases again before Rocchio
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  lined out to right. I was definitely in a blender today, getting
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  different looks every time up from a different pitcher, said Guardian's designated
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  hitter Joe Adele, who struck out in all four of his at
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  bats. We were trying to find it all day. Postseason is a
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  pitcher's duel and it's one of those things. We've got to bounce
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  back. After Miguel Vargas lined a hit to
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  left leading off the fourth, Murakami drove a first pitch elevated sinker
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  four hundred and forty feet into the right field stands for his
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  first postseason home run. The White Sox were feeling momentum starting to
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  go their way coming into the inning, after preventing the Guardians from
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  scoring with the bases loaded. I really wanted the first run at
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  a very important game, so I'm just really happy that I got
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  one, Murakami slid through an interpreter. Cleveland starter Parker Mesick, zero one,
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  allowed two U runs, and four hits in four and one third
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  innings. The rookie left hander struck out six and walked two U.
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  White Sox add to lead in the seventh. Montgomery extended the advantage
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  to three zero in the seventh, with a double down the left
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  field line to drive in Kyle Thiel. It appeared as if Teal
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  would be thrown out at the plate by Angel Martinez, but Hedges
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  couldn't hang on to the throw after Teal's slide. That's why I
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  slid in just straight into the bag, because I know as a
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  catcher myself it's really hard when a guy slides straight in because
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  you got to pull on the ball, Teal said. Up next. Cleveland
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  RHP Gavin Williams, fourteen eight, three point seven six ERA, gets the
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  call for game two. Chicago has not announced a starter, but RHP
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  Sean Burke is expected to pitch the bulk of the innings. Burke
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  allowed three runs and four innings against Houston on Wednesday. See the
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  AP's full MLB coverage here.