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Chicago White Sox 6 – 1 Tampa Bay Rays

MLB · July 31, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Chicago White Sox put together a dominant performance tonight, rolling past the Tampa Bay Rays six to one at the final horn. And this one never felt close.

Chicago came out swinging from the very first inning when Vargas stepped up and launched a four-hundred-and-thirty-three-foot shot to left to put the Sox on the board immediately. Benintendi answered his own call in the second, going four-oh-five to right to push it to two nothing, and the Rays were already chasing. Then Murakami put the hammer down in the third — a three-hundred-and-eighty-nine-foot two-run shot to left center with Antonacci scoring ahead of him — and suddenly Tampa Bay was staring down a four-nothing deficit before they'd found any rhythm at all.

Caminero gave the Rays faithful something to cheer about in the fourth, going four-hundred-and-fifty-three feet to center to cut it to four to one, and for a moment you wondered if Tampa had some life. They didn't. Montgomery shut that conversation down in the sixth with a four-hundred-and-twenty-five-foot blast to right, Murakami scoring again, and that was the ballgame.

Murakami was the story tonight — two for four, two runs scored, two runs driven in, and that pivotal home run. Montgomery added two RBIs of his own off the bench. The Rays simply had no answer once Chicago started connecting.

This was a White Sox team that looked sharp, efficient, and in complete control from the opening frame. 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

  1. Vargas homered to left (433 feet). P1 · 1–0
  2. Benintendi homered to right (405 feet). P2 · 2–0
  3. Murakami homered to left center (389 feet), Antonacci scored. P3 · 4–0
  4. Caminero homered to center (453 feet). P4 · 4–1
  5. C. Montgomery homered to right (425 feet), Murakami scored. P6 · 6–1

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Nick Martinez pitches to Sam Antonacci P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
Antonacci grounded out to second. P1
P1
Nick Martinez pitches to Munetaka Murakami P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
Murakami flied out to center. P1
P1
Nick Martinez pitches to Miguel Vargas P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
Vargas homered to left (433 feet). P1
P1
Nick Martinez pitches to Colson Montgomery P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P1
C. Montgomery struck out looking. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Erick Fedde pitches to Yandy Diaz P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1
Díaz fouled out to first. P1
P1
Erick Fedde pitches to Jonathan Aranda P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1
Aranda popped out to shortstop. P1
P1
Erick Fedde pitches to Junior Caminero P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Caminero struck out swinging. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Nick Martinez pitches to Andrew Benintendi P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2
Benintendi homered to right (405 feet). P2
P2
Nick Martinez pitches to Braden Montgomery P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
B. Montgomery flied out to left. P2
P2
Nick Martinez pitches to Tristan Peters P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Peters grounded out to first. P2
P2
Nick Martinez pitches to Chase Meidroth P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
Meidroth grounded out to pitcher. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Erick Fedde pitches to Cedric Mullins P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Mullins doubled to right. P2
P2
Erick Fedde pitches to Chandler Simpson P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Bunted Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P2
Simpson struck out looking. Chicago White Sox challenged: call on the field was overturned. P2
P2
Erick Fedde pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2
Mesa Jr. flied out to right, Mullins to third. P2
P2
Erick Fedde pitches to Richie Palacios P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Palacios lined out to first. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Nick Martinez pitches to Drew Romo P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Romo grounded out to first. P3
P3
Nick Martinez pitches to Sam Antonacci P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Antonacci singled to center. P3
P3
Nick Martinez pitches to Munetaka Murakami P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Murakami homered to left center (389 feet), Antonacci scored. P3
P3
Nick Martinez pitches to Miguel Vargas P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Vargas popped out to second. P3
P3
Nick Martinez pitches to Colson Montgomery P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
C. Montgomery struck out swinging. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Erick Fedde pitches to Taylor Walls P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Walls struck out swinging. P3
P3
Erick Fedde pitches to Hunter Feduccia P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P3
Feduccia struck out looking. P3
P3
Erick Fedde pitches to Yandy Diaz P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Looking P3
Díaz struck out looking. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Nick Martinez pitches to Andrew Benintendi P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4
Benintendi lined out to center. P4
P4
Nick Martinez pitches to Braden Montgomery P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
B. Montgomery grounded out to first. P4
P4
Nick Martinez pitches to Tristan Peters P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Peters popped out to shortstop. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Erick Fedde pitches to Jonathan Aranda P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4
Aranda flied out to center. P4
P4
Erick Fedde pitches to Junior Caminero P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4
Caminero homered to center (453 feet). P4
P4
Erick Fedde pitches to Cedric Mullins P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Mullins grounded out to first. P4
P4
Erick Fedde pitches to Chandler Simpson P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Simpson reached on infield single to second. P4
P4
Erick Fedde pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4
Simpson stole second, Simpson safe at third on throwing error by catcher Romo. P4
Simpson stole second, Simpson safe at third on throwing error by catcher Romo. P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Mesa Jr. lined out to center. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Nick Martinez pitches to Chase Meidroth P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5
Meidroth lined out to right. P5
P5
Nick Martinez pitches to Drew Romo P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Romo grounded out to first. P5
P5
Nick Martinez pitches to Sam Antonacci P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Antonacci flied out to center. P5
P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Erick Fedde pitches to Richie Palacios P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Palacios grounded out to shortstop. P5
P5
Erick Fedde pitches to Taylor Walls P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P5
Walls grounded out to pitcher. P5
P5
Erick Fedde pitches to Hunter Feduccia P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5
Feduccia singled to center. P5
P5
Erick Fedde pitches to Yandy Diaz P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Díaz struck out looking. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Nick Martinez pitches to Munetaka Murakami P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Murakami singled to center. P6
P6
Nick Martinez pitches to Miguel Vargas P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Vargas lined out to center. P6
P6
Nick Martinez pitches to Colson Montgomery P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
C. Montgomery homered to right (425 feet), Murakami scored. P6
P6
Nick Martinez pitches to Andrew Benintendi P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Benintendi singled to right, Benintendi out stretching at second. P6
P6
Nick Martinez pitches to Braden Montgomery P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
B. Montgomery grounded out to shortstop. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Schweitzer relieved Fedde P6
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Jonathan Aranda P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6
Aranda lined out to left. P6
P6
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Junior Caminero P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P6
Caminero walked. P6
P6
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Cedric Mullins P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P6
Mullins struck out looking. P6
P6
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Chandler Simpson P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
Simpson grounded out to second. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Cook relieved Martinez P7
Alexander Cook pitches to Tristan Peters P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Peters flied out to right. P7
P7
Alexander Cook pitches to Chase Meidroth P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7
Meidroth lined out to center. P7
P7
Alexander Cook pitches to Drew Romo P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Romo singled to right. P7
P7
Alexander Cook pitches to Sam Antonacci P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Antonacci flied out to center. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Mesa Jr. flied out to left. P7
P7
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Richie Palacios P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Palacios flied out to center. P7
P7
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Taylor Walls P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Walls grounded out to shortstop. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Alexander Cook pitches to Munetaka Murakami P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Murakami flied out to left. P8
P8
Alexander Cook pitches to Miguel Vargas P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P8
Vargas walked. P8
P8
Alexander Cook pitches to Colson Montgomery P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
C. Montgomery popped out to third. P8
P8
Alexander Cook pitches to Andrew Benintendi P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P8
Benintendi walked, Vargas to second. P8
P8
Alexander Cook pitches to Braden Montgomery P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
B. Montgomery grounded out to second. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Hunter Feduccia P8
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8
Feduccia flied out to center. P8
P8
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Yandy Diaz P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Díaz doubled to left. P8
P8
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Jonathan Aranda P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Aranda lined out to second, Díaz safe at third on throwing error by second baseman Meidroth. P8
P8
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Junior Caminero P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P8
Caminero walked. P8
P8
Vilade hit for Mullins P8
Tyler Schweitzer pitches to Ryan Vilade P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Vilade struck out swinging. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Vilade in right field. P9
Mesa Jr. in center field. P9
Roycroft relieved Cook P9
Chris Roycroft pitches to Tristan Peters P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
Peters lined out to left. P9
P9
Chris Roycroft pitches to Chase Meidroth P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9
Meidroth hit by pitch. P9
P9
Chris Roycroft pitches to Drew Romo P9
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9
Romo grounded into fielder's choice to second, Meidroth out at second. P9
P9
Chris Roycroft pitches to Sam Antonacci P9
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9
Antonacci grounded out to shortstop. P9
P9
Middle of the 9th inning P9
Bottom of the 9th inning P9
Richards relieved Schweitzer P9
Trevor Richards pitches to Chandler Simpson P9
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9
Simpson flied out to center. P9
P9
Trevor Richards pitches to Victor Mesa Jr. P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P9
Mesa Jr. popped out to third. P9
P9
Trevor Richards pitches to Richie Palacios P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Looking P9
Palacios struck out looking. P9
P9
End of the 9th inning P9