White Sox Weekly: April 20-26, 2026
It was an average week of baseball — we’ll take it
Murakami Mania has not abated. | (Photo by Michael Hirschuber/Getty Images) For the first time this year, the White Sox have had a week that did not end with a losing record. And the first half of the week brought the first back-to-back series wins of the season.
Unfortunately, however, the second half saw a return to a lack of power and run support. Going into this week, there were home run streaks abound. Munetaka Murakami entered Tuesday with three straight games with a home run, Colson Montgomery had two games, and Miguel Vargas was on the precipice of a streak with one home run.
On Tuesday, Sam Antonacci hit his first MLB home run: After a rules check, the inside-the-park home run was confirmed, making for a unique first “long” ball: View Link By Wednesday, Mune tied the franchise record with five straight games with a home run, Montgomery recorded his fourth, and Vargas hit the trifecta. But even though Thursday brought a cool-down for the trio. Andrew Benintendi picked up the slack with a go-ahead blast in the Phoenix finale.
That win meant for first time since 2021, the White Sox won 10 games before May 1. When the Pale Hose arrived home on Friday to begin a series with the Nationals, Murakami homered again, moving into a tie for the MLB home-run lead with his 11th of the season: View Link Then, the home runs stopped, and frankly so did the fun. The power outage resulted in back-to-back extra-innings losses to the Nationals to drop a weekend series in Chicago.
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