100-loss season<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere were a ton of positives leading up to the ninth.<\/p>\n
Sox starter Shane Smith allowed one run on five hits with eight strikeouts and four walks in five innings.<\/p>\n
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Chicago White Sox’s Colson Montgomery tags out New York Yankees’ Ben Rice during the fifth inning of a game Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II)<\/p>\n
\u201cI just pounded the zone better (on Tuesday),\u201d Smith said of his 93-pitch outing. \u201cGot in front of hitters, made some pretty good two-strike pitches. Overall, just sharper.\u201d<\/p>\n
He worked out of a first-and-third jam in the first inning, striking out Giancarlo Stanton. The Yankees scored once in the second on an RBI double by Austin Wells. But Smith escaped further damage by getting Bellinger to fly out to center with the bases loaded.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Smith\u2019s) fastball sticks out to me,\u201d Venable said. \u201cI know I\u2019ve said it a bunch. He was really good tonight. There were some 98s and 97s (mph) there early. Just continued to be aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rookies Teel and Montgomery provided an offensive spark for the Sox in the sixth.<\/p>\n
With one out, Teel\u2019s bloop to right-center landed in front of outfielders Grisham and Judge for a single. Montgomery followed with a 428-foot home run to right field on a 1-1 pitch from Yankees starter Luis Gil.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re trying to do whatever you can to get the guys going,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cTeel had a good at-bat and was able to get on for me, so I think at that point, it was just trying to get guys on base.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we were all having really good at-bats, and I was just kind of waiting for him to leave something over in the middle, and just not miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was Montgomery\u2019s 19th home run of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed that from Colson,\u201d Venable said. \u201cWe see when he does that, it gives us a chance to win. He\u2019s a difference maker. After a tough little stretch, to see him take that swing was awesome. Gave us a boost and the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sox carried the lead into the ninth with the help of relievers Jordan Leasure and Grant Taylor.<\/p>\n
Leasure induced an inning-ending double play off the bat of Judge in the seventh inning. The Yankees had runners on the corners with two outs in the eighth when Taylor struck out Amed Rosario looking.<\/p>\n
But the Sox couldn\u2019t close it out.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a true competitor, you go out there and you try to win every single game and sometimes these things are going to happen,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cIt\u2019s just all learning experiences for us. Everybody on this team\u2019s a true competitor, and they\u2019re all trying to win, and sometimes it sucks and doesn\u2019t go your way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The Chicago White Sox escaped several jams throughout Tuesday\u2019s game against the New York Yankees.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":250782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[132827,960,1274,29987,5386,1818,116047,2228,13250,43782],"class_list":{"0":"post-250781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-99th-loss","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-colson-montgomery","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-mlb-postseason","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-will-venable","17":"tag-yankee-stadium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115257641934908899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge runs to home plate to score on a walk-off RBI single during the ninth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II)<\/p>\n