Cubs 5, White Sox 4: Crosstown goes to Cubs

The final of the Crosstown Classic came to the wire as the Cubs And White Sox fought it out, with the North Siders emerging victor, 5-4. This game had many avoidable mistakes through the South Siders, as their youth showed in some ugly ways this afternoon.

The Cubs were tackled early against opener Grant Taylor, as doubled with one from Kyle Tucker, followed by a Seiya Suzuki walk. Pete Crow-Armstrong showed his star power and did not waste time with an RBI double to the left, to make a fast 2-0 lead:

With Ben Brown on the hill, Andrew Benintendi cut the lead in the lower half of the first bat from a two-out solo shot to the right.

Sean Burke took the hill in the second inning as today’s bulk starter. He had a handful of strikeouts, early with a walk early. But no matter how he threw, Burke could not escape the stupidity of this White Sox team.

In the second half of the third inning came the first mistake of the day before the White Sox: Lenyn Sosa and Brooks Baldwin started the inning with back-to-back singles to put runners on first and second. With one from Chase girl on the second Honkman Nico Hoerner, who was mentioned on the field as an Infield fly. To trying to confuse Sosa, Hoerner deliberately dropped the ball, so Sosa walked to third place and is tagged. Whether he did not know the rules of an infield fly or just froze is not known, but that skullduggerie quickly removed the Cubs from the jam:

The Cubs added to their lead in the first half of the sixth inning, while Carson Kelly started the inning with a lead -off single and was in second place on a ground. With two from continued Hoerner’s great day with a single to place a run and extend the lead to 3-1. Matt Shaw doubled to add 4-1 and Burke got the hook in favor of Tyler Alexander. Burke had an interesting status, because it cost him 91 litters to withstand only 4 2⁄3 innings with five hits, two points, one walk and eight strikeouts, which matched a career high. His era was shaved to 4.17.

The Cubs went to their bullpen to start at the bottom of the sixth inning, while Ben Brown Afloos on five innings with three hits, one point and four strikeouts. Of course he would save a solid outing against us.

The score remained 4-1 to the top of the eighth inning against Mike Vasil. Ian Happ was the star of this inning while reaching a one-out walk and second stable, while Horner then also caused a walk. With a Pickoff attempt from Edgar Quero to Hoerner, Happs tried to score at the beginning of the second, while Hoerner was trapped in a pickle between the first and second. When Miguel threw Vargas home to try to get a Happ to score, the third Honkman Colson Montgomery was called up for interference because he did not give Happ the basic path to return to the third.

That extra run would make the score at 5-1 and would turn out to be very expensive.

By describing some of these plays, I have the feeling that I am taking a small league game back.

The bottom of the eighth inning was tense for the Cubs when the White Sox started a two-out rally. Mike Tauchman hit a single, Meidroth doubled and Benintendi bat a three-run home run (his second of the day) to lower the lead to 5-4. Craig Counsell wasted no time after that home run and called his lockdown closer to Daniel Palencia, who sought out Vargas for the third in the inning.

Palencia stayed in for the bottom of the ninth. With two he hit Luis Robert Jr. With a throw, but SOSA got up to end the competition and the threat.

In general, this was a very frustrating competition that very clearly showed which team was in a play-off push and that was on pace for a third consecutive 100 loss season. It would be clear and could have been much different without a few major mistakes, but they didn’t do that, and that’s that.

The CUBS win the series, this year with 5-1 against the South Siders and now two in the all time Interleague Ledger, but the two teams made for a very entertaining weekend.

The white SOX quickly gets rest for red -glowing Philadelphia Phillies Come to the city to start a series tomorrow night at 6.40 pm, Davis Martin will be on the hill.

Futility Watch

White 2025 Record: 38-68, the seventh–Worst start in the history of White Sox and bound for the 133rd-stringest start in baseball history. A record of 38-68 projects to 58-104 for a full season. A year ago, the record-breaking White Sox 27-79, bound for the sixth-stringest start in baseball history.

White Sox Record of all time (1901-2025, 19.311 Games) 9,632-9,680 (.4988). They were 149 games since the White Sox had a winning record. The White Sox are currently 48 games worse than .500 and fall under 66 more competitions, the team will land at the lowest point in the 125-year history.

Record since the new pope was unveiled as a White SOX fan 28-39

Record needed to prevent a third consecutive 100+ loss season 25-31

Race with the Colorado Rockies for the worst record in 2025 10 ½ games better

• Race to the worst “modern” 162 game record (2024 White Sox, 41-121)
• Race to the worst “modern” record in a 162-game season (1962 Masony40-120-1, three percentage points finished worse than the 2024 White Sox)
• Race to the white SOX losses (2024, 121)
• Race to the worst white SOX record (2024, 41-121)

17 games better, in all cases