{"id":257883,"date":"2025-09-27T04:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257883\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:56:15","slug":"colson-montgomerys-home-run-keys-10-9-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257883\/","title":{"rendered":"Colson Montgomery’s home run keys 10-9 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Washington Nationals gave the Chicago White Sox every opportunity to snap a five-game losing streak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colson Montgomery<\/a> took advantage of the final chance, hitting a go-ahead two-run home run in the ninth inning to lead the Sox to a 10-9 victory in front of 33,938 on Friday at Nationals Park.<\/p>\n

The Sox surrendered six home runs \u2014 three to Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. \u2014 and saw an 8-1 lead evaporate. Still, they found a way to stop their skid in the opener of their final series of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything can change with one swing,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

The Nationals provided plenty of help, making four errors. Two came during a four-run Sox first. The final error came during the pivotal ninth.<\/p>\n

With one out, Kyle Teel hit a slow grounder near the first-base line. Nationals reliever Jose A. Ferrer couldn\u2019t field the ball cleanly, and Teel reached first safely.<\/p>\n

Montgomery followed with the two-run blast, his 20th of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes you get in those moments and try to do too much,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cEarlier in the night, I felt like I was trying to do too much. Didn\u2019t feel like I was seeing the ball too well, because I was trying to do too much, overswing and things like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, sometimes in those situations it kind of calms you down, you try to do one job. Put the ball forward, keep the train rolling for the guys behind us. So, it\u2019s sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manager Will Venable credited Montgomery\u2019s ability to make the in-game adjustments. The shortstop was 0-for-4 coming into that at-bat, having struck out three times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s outstanding,\u201d Venable said. \u201cIt says a lot about his progress, his development, how he\u2019s handling failure. I know there was a lot of frustration (for) him with the first few at-bats there and to be able to recalibrate there and get back on track and give us a shot with that big swing is great. Says a lot about the way he\u2019s handling things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite Sox first baseman Lenyn Sosa, right, and Korey Lee celebrate after a 10-9 win against the Nationals on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Washington. (Nick Wass\/AP)<\/p>\n

The Sox (59-101) won even after seeing a large lead disappear. They jumped ahead 8-1 with Lenyn Sosa making huge offensive contributions. He had an RBI single as part of the four-run first, hit a solo home run in the fourth and had an RBI double during a two-run fifth.<\/p>\n

The Sox went to the bottom of the fifth leading 8-1. Garc\u00eda homered to make it 8-2. He connected for a two-run homer off Sox starter Yoendrys G\u00f3mez during a three-run sixth as the Nationals pulled within 8-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just missed a couple pitches, and at this level, when you do that, you\u2019re going to pay for it,\u201d G\u00f3mez said through an interpreter. \u201cThey are good hitters and they took full advantage of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

G\u00f3mez allowed five runs on eight hits with five strikeouts and no walks in six innings. He allowed four home runs.<\/p>\n

The Nationals stunned the Sox with four more runs in the eighth to take the lead. Daylen Lile hit a three-run home run against reliever Jordan Leasure to tie the score. Garc\u00eda gave the Nationals a 9-8 lead with a solo shot against Leasure later in the inning.<\/p>\n

The Sox were down, but not out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys just continued to fight,\u201d Venable said. \u201cWe hear the chatter in the dugout, the things they are saying. You can feel the energy. There was no letup at all that whole game, even after some zeros there and (the Nationals) take the lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys were focused and excited to get back out there and give it a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

And after Teel reached, Montgomery made the most of the big moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I would get to 20 homers this year,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cBut it goes back to the preparation. The work you put in and all of us, we put in the work so all you can do is get ready for the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only the third time in franchise history the Sox won while allowing at least six home runs. They surrendered seven home runs against the Detroit Tigers on May 28, 1995, but won 14-12 and allowed six homers against the Tigers on July 2, 2002, but won 17-9.<\/p>\n

They did it again Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we showed after the All-Star break how electric this offense can be at times,\u201d said reliever Grant Taylor, who struck out two in the ninth and earned his sixth save. \u201cPutting up 10 runs in any major-league ballgame is awesome. That was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Washington Nationals gave the Chicago White Sox every opportunity to snap a five-game losing streak.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1274,29987,5386,1818,77516,16077,27351,13250,122547],"class_list":{"0":"post-257883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-colson-montgomery","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-jordan-leasure","14":"tag-kyle-teel","15":"tag-lenyn-sosa","16":"tag-will-venable","17":"tag-yoendrys-gomez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115274487234647177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257883","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=257883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}