Tristan Peters kept finding the biggest moments, and Sunday at Rate Field brought another one.
With the game tied in the ninth, Peters launched a walk-off homer off Kodai Senga with one out to lift the White Sox to a 2-1 win over the Mets. It was his third walk-off moment of the year, his ninth home run overall, and it pushed Chicago to its 11th walk-off victory of the season. The win also gave the White Sox the series and helped them keep their grip on the American League Central.
Chicago’s offense had been quiet for most of the afternoon, but it finally cracked through in the eighth. Miguel Vargas singled with one out against Daniel Duarte, and Andrew Benintendi followed with a line drive to the right-field corner that brought Vargas home for a 1-0 lead. Those two hits were the third and fourth of the game for the White Sox.
The Mets answered in the top of the ninth against Grant Taylor, when Jared Young delivered an RBI single to even things up at 1-1 and set the stage for Peters’ finish.
New York had threatened earlier, too. In the seventh, the Mets put runners on first and second against Erick Fedde, who entered as the bulk pitcher after opener Sean Newcomb.
Hagen Smith took over for Fedde, worked into trouble with a 3-0 count against Jared Young, and then struck him out to escape. Smith then needed just four pitches to retire pinch-hitter Francisco Alvarez and got Marcus Semien to chase a pitch well out of the zone for his third strikeout of the inning, leaving both runners stranded.
The White Sox had their best chance against Nolan McLean in the third, when they loaded the bases with two outs. Benintendi couldn’t finish the rally, striking out on three pitches to end the inning.
On the mound, Fedde covered four-plus scoreless innings after Newcomb tossed two scoreless frames to open the game. McLean was sharp for the Mets, striking out six while allowing only a Sam Antonacci single across six innings.
Antonacci also made a bit of history in the fifth. After being hit by a McLean pitch with two outs, he picked up his 24th hit-by-pitch of the 2026 season, setting a single-season franchise record.
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