right fielder Braden Montgomery<\/a> prevented more damage with his solid throw to the plate. Nick Loftin got caught between third and home and was tagged out to end the inning. Newcomb made a nice play earlier in the inning on a safety-squeeze attempt, flipping the ball out of his glove to the plate in time to get a runner.<\/p>\nMontgomery played a role offensively in the bottom of the seventh when the Sox tied the score. Andrew Benintendi began the inning with a single and was lifted for pinch runner Luisangel Acu\u00f1a. With one out, the Sox executed a hit-and-run, and Acu\u00f1a went from first to third on a Chase Meidroth single.<\/p>\n
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White Sox starter Davis Martin celebrates as he walks off the field after he top of the second inning Saturday, June 27, 2026, at Rate Field. (Chris Sweda\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
Montgomery then grounded into a fielder\u2019s choice, with Acu\u00f1a scoring to tie it at 1.<\/p>\n
Colson Montgomery and Meidroth began the ninth with back-to-back singles. Braden Montgomery bunted and Loftin couldn\u2019t handle Daniel Lynch IV\u2019s throw to third that hit him in an uncomfortable area. Everyone was safe on the single.<\/p>\n
The Royals brought the infield in and added an infielder. Reliever John Schreiber struck out Junior Perez.<\/p>\n
The Royals kept a similar defensive alignment with Gonzalez up, and the first baseman put a grounder past shortstop Bobby Witt Jr., bringing in Colson Montgomery with the winning run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to hit a ground ball,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cI was trying to hit the ball in the air. With two strikes, I was just trying to put something in play and make something happen and luckily it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reliever Grant Taylor pitched two overpowering innings, striking out four while picking up the victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever done that,\u201d Taylor said of throwing 18 strikes in his 19 pitches. \u201cPretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Former White Sox pitcher Richard Dotson throws out a ceremonial first pitch as the 1983 team is honored before a game against the Royals on June 27, 2026, at Rate Field. (Chris Sweda\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
The Sox won with the 1983 team in attendance for a reunion. Before the game, the Sox ran a video tribute and then introduced the players and manager Tony La Russa. Pitcher Richard Dotson threw a ceremonial first pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf) said, \u2018We have to have these guys together,\u2019\u201d said Ron Kittle, who earned American League Rookie of the Year honors as an outfielder on the 1983 team. \u201cThis might be the last time you see everybody all together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked with all these guys to get it three years ago. It didn\u2019t just happen. Now we have 18 guys out here, which is pretty nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kittle hit 35 home runs on the squad that won the AL West by 20 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody knew a game plan of what to do,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cWe had the best coaching staff in baseball. We also had (pitcher) Jerry Koosman, (catcher) Carlton Fisk and they led by leadership and example. And it became easy that we went out there and if somebody did something stupid, you were told instantly what was going on. That\u2019s a great respect.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were a division-winning team that drew two million people to the stadium, and we were the first team to win in such a long time in Chicago, it became a popular franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kittle is also enjoying everything he sees from the 2026 Sox.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis young team, they play hard,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cSome of these guys get out of their car in the parking lot and they are already dirty. They stop balls, they dive. They don\u2019t put their head down when they make a mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys have a chance to win every day. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sox did it again Saturday, improving to 43-38 while securing a franchise-record 10th straight home series victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have everything we needed inside the building and now we\u2019re just putting it all together,\u201d Martin said. \u201cWe\u2019re playing good baseball. Just continue to do our work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re only halfway, still a lot of baseball to go. So continue to do what we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox recognized their division-winning 1983 club with several members from that team on the field…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":897592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[363605,363603,363604,960,1274,29987,159775,16076,5386,1818,216994,18032,1284,67277,27038,363606,80995,212420,92087],"class_list":["post-897591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-1983-white-sox","tag-bradon-montgomery","tag-chase-meidroth1983-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-doug-martin","tag-grant-taylor","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-jacob-gonzalez","tag-jerry-reinsdorf","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luisangel-acuna","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-richard-dotson","tag-ron-kittle","tag-sean-newcomb","tag-tony-la-russa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116824983440949016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897591","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=897591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}