The Chicago White Sox, after enduring a challenging start to the 2024 MLB season with a record of 4-22, achieved a significant turnaround by winning three consecutive games against the Tampa Bay Rays. The series began with a 9-4 victory, where Martín Maldonado and Eloy Jiménez played pivotal roles, contributing five runs with their home runs. Maldonado expressed satisfaction post-game, noting the mental peace results on the field bring. This win ended a seven-game losing streak for the White Sox. The momentum continued into the next games, with Andrew Benintendi hitting his first career walkoff two-run home run in the 10th inning to secure an 8-7 win in the second game. Erick Fedde also shone, pitching into the 9th and striking out 9 in the final game, which completed the sweep and improved their season record to 6-22. This series marked their first series win of the season, a notable improvement given their previous record of 0-7-1 in series.
The @WhiteSox complete the sweep! 🧹 https://t.co/VFUZQnCse8
Baseball is something. Sitting at 3-22 and losers of 7 straight, the #WhiteSox come home and sweep the #Rays. They scored 21 runs in the series. Erick Fedde followed up a career high 11 K outing by pitching into the 9th and striking out 9 The Sox are 6-22.
SOX SWEEP! https://t.co/9WrPQO7CdV
White Sox add two more on Benintendi's single to right. Eloy again moving well and going first to third. It's 4-1 White Sox as they look to finish off a three-game sweep.
Andrew Benintendi's first career walkoff home run sent a lively crowd of just over 28,000 into a frenzy and clinched the White Sox first series win in '24: https://t.co/U9zHeDCYMG
Benintendi, White Sox walk it off against the Rays in extras for 2nd straight win https://t.co/BVBU8xRSV0
Andrew Benintendi and the White Sox walked it off tonight against the Rays in ten innings for their second straight win. How it played out, plus where some reinforcements for the bullpen may come from, for @WGNNews: https://t.co/IMWhUjBr1R
FINAL: White Sox 8, Rays 7 Where were you for the Andrew Benintendi Game?! @didyasmaniwalk recaps a great one. https://t.co/3BZTRNAprh
White Sox are 5-22 on the season...and riding a win streak
- Andrew Benintendi hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning for his second homer of the game and the season, giving the Chicago White Sox an 8-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night. https://t.co/9YRrDcSbAz
White Sox finally clinch first series win of 2024 on Andrew Benintendi's walk-off home run vs. Rays https://t.co/F96qZ81Hsv
SOX WALK IT OFF! https://t.co/7IaFo8xRsA
A win on Saturday or Sunday gives the White Sox their first series win of the season (0-7-1, 2 four-game road sweeps). They haven’t won a series at home since they took two of three from the Yankees last August 7-9, per MLB Network Gameday notes.
Tampa Bay Rays (13-14, fourth in the AL East) vs. Chicago White Sox (4-22, fifth in the AL Central) https://t.co/vhXyCIaFJv
Martín Maldonado homered and the Sox scored a bunch of runs. They got to “see one go through the hoop,” so to speak. “It’s always good when you see results on the field,” Maldonado said after the game. “I think that gives you a little bit of mental peace.”
- Light-hitting Martín Maldonado hit a three-run homer, Eloy Jiménez added a two-run-shot and the MLB-worst Chicago White Sox snapped a seven-game losing streak with their fourth win of the season, a 9-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night. https://t.co/n0MgKcDAqY
The White Sox lost 10 straight last April and were on the verge of 11 when they rallied for 7 in the ninth to beat .. the Rays at home. The White Sox had lost 7 straight this April before erupting for 9 runs tonight to beat ... the Rays at home.
FINAL: White Sox 9, Rays 4 Finally, a victory - much in thanks to Martin Maldonado. @Noahp245 has your recap! https://t.co/ntATei0zQg
THE WHITE SOX WON!!!!!! https://t.co/ZdINazAAkC
Ballgame. Sox set a new season-high in runs scored in a 9-4 win over the Rays. Eloy Jiménez and Martín Maldonado homered to drive in five of those nine. They used six pitchers, but it’s probably the best the Sox have looked in 2024. They’re 4-22.
SOX WIN! https://t.co/bAUMwhJivC
White Sox…. Win? https://t.co/c2yRPF7jZx
Ballgame. Sox set a new season-high in runs scored in a 9-3 win over the Rays. Eloy Jiménez and Martín Maldonado homered to drive in five of those nine. They used six pitchers, but it’s probably the best the Sox have looked in 2024. They’re 4-22.
Martín Maldonado’s third hit of the season is also his first home run. He sends a three-run shot out deep to left field, and the Sox own a 5-0 lead in the sixth inning.