Chicago White Sox at Houston Astros

CWS 5 — 1 HOU

Final — 2026-09-01

MVP: Sean Burke 5.2 IP, 0 ER, 6 K

Chicago White Sox defeated Houston Astros 5-1. Sean Burke led the way with 5.2 IP, 0 ER, 6 K. Sean Burke earned the win and Kai-Wei Teng took the loss.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CWS	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	5
HOU	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1

WP Sean Burke

LP Kai-Wei Teng

Scoring Plays

Top 5: Andrew Benintendi singles on a line drive to right fielder Cam Smith. Sam Antonacci scores. Miguel Vargas to 3rd. (1-0)

Top 5: Colson Montgomery doubles (22) on a line drive to right fielder Cam Smith. Miguel Vargas scores. Andrew Benintendi scores. (3-0)

Top 7: Randal Grichuk doubles (21) on a sharp line drive to right fielder Cam Smith. Munetaka Murakami scores. Colson Montgomery scores. (5-0)

Bot 8: Isaac Paredes homers (18) on a fly ball to left field. (5-1)

CWS — Batting

Name	POS	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Peters	RF	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.276	.343	.461	.804
Grichuk	RF	4	0	1	1	2	0	1	.272	.298	.544	.842
Murakami	1B	4	1	0	0	0	1	3	.215	.358	.489	.847
Meidroth	2B	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	.273	.347	.401	.748
Montgomery	SS	4	1	2	1	2	1	2	.216	.296	.438	.734
Romo	C	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.143	.237	.291	.528
Benintendi	DH	5	1	1	0	1	0	1	.247	.306	.426	.732
Doyle	CF	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.212	.264	.300	.564
Antonacci	LF	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	.267	.366	.390	.756
Vargas	3B	4	1	2	0	0	1	0	.251	.365	.488	.853

HOU — Batting

Name	POS	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Paredes	3B	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	.256	.355	.421	.776
Smith	RF	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.212	.278	.388	.666
Altuve	2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.246	.310	.394	.704
Trammell	CF	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	.209	.294	.364	.658
Pena	SS	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.281	.336	.477	.813
Wade	LF	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.206	.325	.343	.668
Walker	1B	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.227	.302	.427	.729
Diaz	C	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.258	.288	.413	.701
Alvarez	DH	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	.316	.433	.603	1.036
Velazquez	LF	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.191	.260	.404	.664

CWS — Pitching

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	WHIP	Decision
Taylor	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	14-9	2.00	1.01
Burke	5.2	1	0	0	4	6	0	104-66	3.20	1.14	W
Hudson	1.1	1	0	0	0	2	0	17-13	3.09	1.22	H
Hicks	1.0	1	1	1	2	2	1	25-15	4.54	1.61

HOU — Pitching

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC-ST	ERA	WHIP	Decision
Teng	2.0	3	3	3	1	1	35-22	4.66	1.36	L
Blanco	4.0	3	0	0	3	3	88-51	6.59	1.46
Imai	3.0	2	2	2	3	5	59-33	5.35	1.47

Venue: Daikin Park, Houston, Texas

Chicago White Sox at Houston Astros

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