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The requiem for the 2026 White Sox season many of us expected to write as long as six months ago finally did arrive. That it came in October marks this an outstanding season, no matter how flat the finale flopped.

After a detestable start to the season, logic-defying climb to .500, command of the AL Central after the All-Star Break, September swoon, desperate attempt to claw back to first place, dominant start to the playoffs and utter collapse in front of a rabid and hungry home crowd…

The White Sox have played only one max-series playoff game ever: The 6-4 loss to Oakland in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series in 2020. But there are at least three other do-or-die regular season games as well, all having a direct impact on the postseason.

With a second opportunity to seal the series at home, the White Sox (84-78) laid an egg against the Guardians (85-77), who tied the series with a 9-5 victory. The only ongoing Division Series is tied at two, and the only remaining game will happen in Cleveland.

The White Sox (84-78) lost Game 3 by a score of 9-3, but they hold a 2-1 series lead over the Guardians (85-77) in the ALDS. Once again, as we approach this game, the South Siders are one victory away from advancing to the ALCS.

Sooner or later, one of these kinds of games was bound to happen. Things had been going very smoothly for the White Sox (84-78), who had only allowed nine runs in four games this postseason.

After an exciting 4-3 victory, the White Sox (84-78) incredibly hold a 2-0 series lead over the Guardians (85-77) in the ALDS. The South Siders are one victory away from advancing to the ALCS, where they have not been since 2005.

The Empty Pockets love music. That might seem redundant to say about a band, but many musicians are joyless about their art.

The Cleveland Guardians are on their way to the ALCS after beating the Chicago White Sox, 2-0, in Game 5 of their ALDS series on Saturday night, completing the series comeback.

The White Sox are handing the ball to Sean Burke in Game 5 of the ALDS against the Guardians on Saturday night in Cleveland. Manager Will Venable confirmed the assignment Friday, making Burke the first traditional starter Chicago has used since he started Wild Card Game 2 in…

The Chicago White Sox entered the 2026 postseason with high hopes, stellar talent, and enough momentum to make a deep playoff run. After a roller-coaster ALDS series, the South Siders now teeter on the edge of elimination.

Guardians manager Stephen Vogt faced plenty of criticism for how he handled his pitching staff in Thursday's win.

Sean Burke will take the mound for the Chicago White Sox against Gavin Williams and the Cleveland Guardians in a win-or-go-home Game 5 of the ALDS on Saturday. While the White Sox took a commanding 2-0 lead against the Guardians in the series, Cleveland has gained momentum by…

After dominating the Chicago White Sox in Game 2, Gavin Williams is starting the decisive American League Division Series Game 5 for the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday.

The Chicago White Sox will start ace Sean Burke on Saturday against the Cleveland Guardians in a decisive Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

CLEVELAND -- The American League Division Series has provided a roller coaster of emotions for the Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox. Road teams have won the first four contests, setting up a winner-take-all Game 5 on Saturday night.

<p>A rainy night in Cleveland during a winner-take-all Major League Baseball playoff game couldn’t save Chicago a second time.</p><p>Droves of fans filled Ravona Theatre to watch the White Sox fall 2-0 to the Cleveland Guardians in Game 5 of the American League Division…

<p>CLEVELAND — The unmistakable end-of-season sound of large men exchanging daps and bro hugs filled the visitors’ clubhouse late Saturday at Progressive Field.</p><p>‘‘This is my favorite team I’ve ever played on,’’ starting pitcher Sean Burke said after the Sox were eliminated…

<p>CLEVELAND — The White Sox needed a regular baseball game Saturday night. They needed a starting pitcher to do what a starting pitcher is supposed to do: stay in the game longer than a few innings.

<p>CLEVELAND — MLB will hold a moment of silence for Sam McDowell, a six-time All-Star pitcher for Cleveland in the 1960s and early 70s, before Game 5 of the White Sox-Guardians series Saturday night.</p><p>McDowell, who died Monday at 84, became a counselor for athletes who…

<p>CLEVELAND – The climactic battle for American League Central supremacy is at hand. The White Sox will battle the Guardians on Saturday night in a decisive Game 5 of the ALDS with their staff ace on the mound, Sean Burke.</p><p>Burke is fully rested and has dominated Guardians…

<p>Daniel Zoric and his younger brother, Charlie, were bound by their White Sox fandom before they shared the same air.</p><p>Daniel, 24, has been a fan for as long as he walked this earth. But 20-year-old Charlie's fandom began before he was born.

<p>CLEVELAND — In August 2022, then-White Sox general manager Rick Hahn was discussing the team’s lack of power when he summed up the effect the long ball can have.</p><p>“Ball goes far, team goes far,” he said.</p><p>The ball did not go far for the Sox that season. They…

<p>In the hushed environs of a post-playoff loss clubhouse, as White Sox players are asked how they can possibly get themselves ready to win a do-or-die Game 5 in Cleveland after a pair of devastating home defeats, there are reminders that this is a game played largely by…

In the end, the 2026 White Sox’s postseason lived and died like the 2026 regular season, with a surprising over-.500 record overshadowed by the Cleveland Guardians coming from behind to clip them. Over the first six months, the White Sox shocked baseball with an 84-78 record and…

The White Sox have maximized usage of the cushion that winning the first two games of the ALDS afforded them, and now they have to end this two-game skid against the Guardians for the privilege of flying to St. Petersburg and opening the ALCS against the Tampa Bay Rays on…

Good morning! With Jim highlighting the lengths to which Miguel Vargas is being respected , I thought it might be interesting to examine just how he compares across other playoff runs in terms of walks.

It’s Oct. 10 and we still don’t have to dip into the offseason content well, and if you told me that before the season, I’d be pleased as punch. If you told me that we’d have to start dipping into the offseason content well on Oct. 11 because the White Sox blew a 2-0 lead…

There were a few different ways Will Venable could have manipulated the order of the pitchers he used in Game 4 on Thursday to potentially nurse a one-run lead over the final four innings, or at least stand a chance of winning the game by a score of 7-6, although nothing…

The White Sox’s pregame pitching plan involved Hagen Smith, Erick Fedde, Anthony Kay, Jordan Hicks and Grant Taylor in some order. Well, Smith didn’t get out of the first inning, Hicks gave up a go-ahead homer, Kay only retired one of the three batters he faced, and Taylor…

Game 4 is Game 17, in the sense that the ALDS is pretty much the continuation of a season series that gives the White Sox a 9-7 edge at the moment. This time, the Guardians would hold the tiebreaker if the White Sox can’t get to 10.

And just like that, the White Sox are hosting the only game in town. With the Rays sweeping the Yankees (who never led at any point over three games) and the Brewers and Dodgers both securing clinching victories in their respective Game 4's on Wednesday, White Sox-Guardians is…

Here's how Cleveland's ALDS Game 5 victory over Chicago went down.

Pitching on a day's rest, Gavin Williams had 12 of the Guardians' record 21 strikeouts in a 2-0 win over the White Sox to clinch the best-of-five ALDS after losing the first two games.

The White Sox struck out 21 times and managed just three hits in Saturday's decisive Game 5, losing 2-0 to the Guardians to be ousted from the playoffs after jumping to a 2-0 lead in the ALDS.

Williams tied the franchise record with a dozen strikeouts across 5 ⅔ innings in Cleveland's victory.

Gavin Williams had 12 of a record 21 strikeouts by Cleveland pitchers.

Gavin Williams dominated the Chicago hitters and José Ramírez provided all the offense the Guardians needed to win on Saturday

Cleveland became the final team to clinch its spot in the LCS round on Saturday, joining the Rays, Dodgers and Brewers