{"id":746976,"date":"2026-04-23T05:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746976\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:39:20","slug":"chicago-white-sox-munetaka-murakami-homers-in-5th-straight-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746976\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox: Munetaka Murakami homers in 5th straight game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Munetaka Murakami tied a Chicago White Sox franchise record on Wednesday with a home run in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/04\/22\/chicago-white-sox-arizona-diamondbacks-three-home-runs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fifth consecutive game<\/a>. But the Sox couldn\u2019t dig out of a huge hole, and lost 11-7 to the Arizona Diamondbacks in front of 20,799 at Chase Field.<\/p>\n<p>Murakami hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning against Diamondbacks reliever Ryan Thompson. He joined A.J. Pierzynski (2012), Paul Konerko (2011), Carlos Lee (2003), Frank Thomas (twice in 1994), Ron Kittle (1983) and Greg Luzinski (1983) as Sox players to homer in five straight games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy that I (tied) the record,\u201d Murakami said through an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Vargas and Colson Montgomery also continued home run streaks on Wednesday for the Sox.<\/p>\n<p>But Ildemaro Vargas had two home runs and five RBIs for the Diamondbacks. He hit a three-run home run against Sox starter Anthony Kay during a four-run second inning.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Vargas, no relation, led off the third with a home run to left-center, bringing the Sox within 4-3. He has homered in three straight games.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Miguel Vargas of the Chicago White Sox reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the third inning at Chase Field on April 22, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Chris Coduto\/Getty Images)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"312\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ctc-z-2272658160_261900452.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"35405668\" \/>Miguel Vargas of the Chicago White Sox reacts after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the third inning at Chase Field on April 22, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Chris Coduto\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Ildemaro Vargas answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the third, stretching Arizona\u2019s lead to 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery led off the fourth with a home run. He has homered in four consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks scored twice in the bottom of the fourth, including on a balk called on Kay. The left-hander allowed eight runs on eight hits with three walks and one strikeout in 3 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Arenado hit a two-run homer against Sox reliever Lucas Sims in the sixth inning, giving the Diamondbacks a 10-5 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Murakami brought the Sox within 10-7 with the two-run home run in the seventh, which went 451 feet. He has a team-leading 10 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>But the Diamondbacks added an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh and held off the Sox (9-15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Munetaka Murakami tied a Chicago White Sox franchise record on Wednesday with a home run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":746977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[1279,960,1274,29987,5386,105830,1818,27038,150026],"class_list":["post-746976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-il","tag-ildemaro-vargas","tag-illinois","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-munetaka-murakami"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116452417944158117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746976","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=746976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}