Houston Astros 4 – 1 Chicago White Sox

MLB · July 25, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Houston Astros shut down the Chicago White Sox tonight, four to one, and it wasn't nearly as close as that final score suggests.

Houston drew first blood in the sixth inning and did it in a big way. Isaac Paredes singled to right field, scoring Jeremy Peña, and then a fielding error by right fielder B. Montgomery turned what should have been a routine play into a three-run nightmare for Chicago — Peña, Smith, and Yordan Alvarez all came around to score, and Paredes ended up at third. Just like that, the Astros had a three-nothing cushion and all the momentum in the ballpark.

Paredes wasn't done. He came back in the eighth, singled to right again, and drove in Peña for the fourth time — finishing the night two for four with three runs batted in. That man was the engine of this offense. Peña was no slouch either, reaching base three times in four at-bats and crossing the plate twice.

Chicago managed a consolation run in the ninth when C. Montgomery singled home Vargas, but by that point Houston's pitching staff had already locked the door. The White Sox simply had no answer for the damage Paredes inflicted, and one error in the sixth inning proved to be the defining moment of the entire game.

Houston wins it, four to one. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Paredes singled to right, Peña scored, Smith scored and Alvarez scored on fielding error by right fielder B. Montgomery, Paredes to third. P6 · 3–0
Paredes singled to right, Peña scored. P8 · 4–0
C. Montgomery singled to right, Vargas scored. P9 · 4–1

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Sean Burke pitches to Jeremy Pena P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

Peña singled to left. P1

Sean Burke pitches to Yordan Alvarez P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Alvarez grounded into fielder's choice to third, Peña to second. P1

Sean Burke pitches to Isaac Paredes P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Alvarez to second on wild pitch by Burke. P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Paredes struck out swinging. P1

Sean Burke pitches to Jose Altuve P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

Altuve grounded out to third. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Hunter Brown pitches to Sam Antonacci P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Antonacci lined out to right. P1

Hunter Brown pitches to Munetaka Murakami P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Murakami struck out swinging. P1

Hunter Brown pitches to Miguel Vargas P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

Vargas flied out to center. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Sean Burke pitches to LaMonte Wade Jr. P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Wade Jr. reached on infield single to third. P2

Sean Burke pitches to Christian Walker P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Walker struck out swinging. P2

Sean Burke pitches to Yainer Diaz P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Diaz flied out to right. P2

Sean Burke pitches to Lucas Spence P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Spence struck out swinging. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Hunter Brown pitches to Colson Montgomery P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

C. Montgomery flied out to left. P2

Hunter Brown pitches to Andrew Benintendi P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Benintendi struck out swinging. P2

Hunter Brown pitches to Braden Montgomery P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

B. Montgomery struck out swinging. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Sean Burke pitches to Cam Smith P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Smith struck out swinging. P3

Sean Burke pitches to Jeremy Pena P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Peña struck out swinging. P3

Sean Burke pitches to Yordan Alvarez P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3

Alvarez grounded out to second. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Hunter Brown pitches to Tristan Peters P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P3

Peters singled to right. P3

Hunter Brown pitches to Chase Meidroth P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Meidroth flied out to right. P3

Hunter Brown pitches to Edgar Quero P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3

Quero flied out to center. P3

Hunter Brown pitches to Sam Antonacci P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Antonacci grounded out to first. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Sean Burke pitches to Isaac Paredes P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Paredes flied out to left. P4

Sean Burke pitches to Jose Altuve P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Altuve lined out to right. P4

Sean Burke pitches to LaMonte Wade Jr. P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4

Wade Jr. grounded out to first. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Hunter Brown pitches to Munetaka Murakami P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Murakami singled to right. P4

Hunter Brown pitches to Miguel Vargas P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Vargas struck out swinging. P4

Hunter Brown pitches to Colson Montgomery P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

C. Montgomery struck out swinging. P4

Hunter Brown pitches to Andrew Benintendi P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Benintendi struck out swinging. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Sean Burke pitches to Christian Walker P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Walker struck out swinging. P5

Sean Burke pitches to Yainer Diaz P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Diaz struck out swinging. P5

Sean Burke pitches to Lucas Spence P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P5

Spence struck out looking. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Hunter Brown pitches to Braden Montgomery P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

B. Montgomery grounded out to second. P5

Hunter Brown pitches to Tristan Peters P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Peters flied out to center. P5

Hunter Brown pitches to Chase Meidroth P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Meidroth grounded out to second. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Sean Burke pitches to Cam Smith P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Smith hit by pitch. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Jeremy Pena P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Peña singled to left, Smith to second. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Yordan Alvarez P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P6

Alvarez walked, Peña to second, Smith to third. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Isaac Paredes P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Paredes singled to right, Peña scored, Smith scored and Alvarez scored on fielding error by right fielder B. Montgomery, Paredes to third. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Jose Altuve P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Altuve grounded out to pitcher. P6

Sean Burke pitches to LaMonte Wade Jr. P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Wade Jr. struck out swinging. P6

Sean Burke pitches to Christian Walker P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 8 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 9 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 10 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 11 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 12 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 13 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Walker struck out swinging. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Trammell in left field. P6

Hunter Brown pitches to Edgar Quero P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Quero grounded out to shortstop. P6

Hunter Brown pitches to Sam Antonacci P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

Antonacci grounded out to second. P6

Hunter Brown pitches to Munetaka Murakami P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

Murakami grounded out to shortstop. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Richards relieved Burke P7

Trevor Richards pitches to Yainer Diaz P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Diaz grounded out to shortstop. P7

Trevor Richards pitches to Lucas Spence P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Spence grounded out to first. P7

Trevor Richards pitches to Cam Smith P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7

Smith grounded out to third. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Hunter Brown pitches to Miguel Vargas P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Vargas flied out to right. P7

Hunter Brown pitches to Colson Montgomery P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

C. Montgomery grounded out to first. P7

Hunter Brown pitches to Andrew Benintendi P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Benintendi struck out swinging. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Trevor Richards pitches to Jeremy Pena P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Peña singled to right. P8

Trevor Richards pitches to Yordan Alvarez P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Peña to second on wild pitch by Richards. P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Alvarez struck out swinging. P8

Trevor Richards pitches to Isaac Paredes P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Paredes singled to right, Peña scored. P8

Trevor Richards pitches to Jose Altuve P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Altuve fouled out to first. P8

Trevor Richards pitches to Taylor Trammell P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Trammell struck out swinging. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Allen at second base. P8

Abreu relieved Brown P8

Bryan Abreu pitches to Braden Montgomery P8

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8

B. Montgomery singled to left. P8

Bryan Abreu pitches to Tristan Peters P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 8 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 9 : Ball 4 P8

Peters walked, B. Montgomery to second. P8

Bryan Abreu pitches to Chase Meidroth P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Meidroth struck out swinging. P8

Bryan Abreu pitches to Edgar Quero P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P8

Quero grounded out to second, Peters to second, B. Montgomery to third. P8

Grichuk hit for Antonacci P8

Sousa relieved Abreu P8

Bennett Sousa pitches to Randal Grichuk P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P8

Grichuk popped out to first. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Grichuk in left field. P9

Schweitzer relieved Richards P9

Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Christian Walker P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P9

Walker walked. P9

Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Yainer Diaz P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Diaz flied out to center. P9

Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Lucas Spence P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Spence lined out to center. P9

Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Cam Smith P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Smith flied out to center. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

Bennett Sousa pitches to Munetaka Murakami P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P9

Murakami flied out to center. P9

Bennett Sousa pitches to Miguel Vargas P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

Vargas singled to center, Vargas safe at second on fielding error by center fielder Spence. P9

Bennett Sousa pitches to Colson Montgomery P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

C. Montgomery singled to right, Vargas scored. P9

Acuña hit for Benintendi P9

Hader relieved Sousa P9

Josh Hader pitches to Luisangel Acuna P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Acuña struck out swinging. P9

Josh Hader pitches to Braden Montgomery P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

B. Montgomery struck out swinging. P9