Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals

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Chicago White Sox

1-8, 0-4 Away

Final
3 - 5

Kansas City Royals

6-4, 5-2 Home

Melendez's third home run of series lifts Royals over White Sox 5-3 for 4-game sweep

“The way these all four of these games transpired — they were all close in the middle to late part of the game,” Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said. “To stick with it is really cool to see."

Chicago started 1-9 for just the second time in the 124-year history of the franchise after going 0-10 in 1968.

“We had a lot of opportunities to score,” White Sox manager Pedro Grifol aid, “and we didn’t capitalize with the big hit. We should have brought that game home.”

Chicago ended a 19-inning scoreless streak in the fourth and led 3-0 in the fifth before Hunter Renroe's two-run homer off starter Garrett Crochet.

Melendez hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Deivi García (0-2) for a 4-3 lead, his third go-ahead hit of the series. Melendez flipped his bat in triumph.

He had a go-ahead, eight-inning single on Friday and a tiebreaking, seventh-inning homer on Saturday.

“Obviously, a little bit of luck right there," Melendez said. "I’m just thankful that I’m able to help do something to help the team win. It’s just pretty crazy.”

Kansas City added a run when Kyle Isbel reached on what was scored on an infield hit when reliever Dominic Leone failed to catch the throw to first from second baseman Lenyn Sosa.

John Schreiber (1-0) pitched a one-hit seventh and James McArthur got three outs for his second save as Kansas City completed its first four-game sweep since 2021.

Dominic Fletcher hit an RBI double in the fourth off Alec Marsh and scored on Braden Shewmake’s sacrifice fly, just the third multi-run inning of the season for the White Sox.

White Sox: RHP Triston McKenzie (0-1, 10.80 ERA) starts for Cleveland in Monday's series opener against visiting Chicago.

Royals: LHP Cole Ragans (0-1, 1.46 ERA) opens Tuesday's series against visiting Houston.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 53.4%

White Sox: 46.6%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Fletcher struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Benintendi singled to left, Sheets to second.
	9th Inning	Vaughn struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Sheets walked.
	9th Inning	Moncada flied out to center.
	9th Inning	McArthur relieved Smith

Statistics

CHW		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
6	Ground Balls	11
8	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
12	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	2
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
37	At Bats	29
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
23	Runners Left On Base	7
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	1
24	Fly Balls	12
1	Caught Stealing	0
150	Pitches	131
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
15	Total Bases	12
42	Plate Appearances	32
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
5.8	Runs Created	2.8
.324	Batting Average	.172
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.405	Slugging Percentage	.414
.135	Secondary Average	.414
.381	On Base Percentage	.250
.786	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.664
0.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.9
30.0	Batter Rating	33.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	14.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.57	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.09
.081	Isolated Power	.241
0.38	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.071	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.094
-.189	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.241
6.0	Runs Produced	9.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.1
84.8	MLB Rating	78.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0