Martin, Miguel, Murakami & Montgomery lift off against the Cubs in 8-3 win

Munetaka Murakami notched his first career multi-home run game. | (Photo by Daniel Bartel/Getty Images)

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Davis Martin, Miguel Vargas, Munetaka Murakami and Colson Montgomery set the tone early and never looked back in the Chicago White Sox landslide 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs, and it was mightily sweet.

Davis Martin

Right off the jump, Davis Martin sat the Cubs down in order to begin the ballgame, and he never let up. Notching a quality start, Martin shoved for six innings and only allowed one run via a Miguel Amaya homer. He struck out seven and induced 15 swings and misses.

Tonight’s start marked the sixth consecutive outing Martin has allowed one run or less.

Davis should be well on his way to Philadelphia for this year’s All-Star Game.

Miguel Vargas (11)

In the home half of the first inning, Sam Antonacci (single) and Munetaka Murakami (walk) made their way on base for Miguel Vargas, who put a charge into a sinker right down the middle: 108.4 mph exit velocity, 421 feet and most importantly, a 3-0 Sox early lead.

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This marked back-to-back games with a home run for Vargas.

Munetaka Murakami (16, 17)

On a 1-1 count with one out in the third inning, Munetaka Murakami took a high-and-away changeup to the left-center field bleachers for a 391-foot bomb, his 16th of the season, for a 4-0 Sox lead. Pete Crow-Armstrong measured the ball all the way to where DeWayne Wise made “The Catch,” but this ball? Uncatchable.

As impressive as Murakami’s young MLB career has been, he had yet to homer more than once in a single game until the fifth inning of tonight’s ballgame. After Antonacci slashed a single down the left field line, Mune unloaded on a 4-seam fastball right down the middle, driving it 428 feet to the fans in right-center field to make it 7-0, Sox.

Colson Montgomery (13)

In the same frame as Mune’s first bomb, Colson Montgomery hit the definition of a moonshot (112.4 mph exit velocity and 442 feet) to the right field fans in the stands for his 13th longball of the season. The towering drive banged off of a window in the right field suites; the oddity of such a blast alone found the umpires reviewing the blast, but it had the distance and the height and was fair all the way for a call-stands declaration.

This homer marked Colson’s third in as many games, and he has four such stretches in his young career: July 22-25 & August 22-26 in 2025, and April 18-22 & May 13-16 in 2026. It also marked the fourth time this year where Vargas, Mune and Montgomery all homered in the same game. The last time this happened? José Valentín, Paul Konerko and Joe Crede in 2004, and they did it five times.

The Highlights

When it was still a 3-0 ballgame in the top half of the third inning, Tristan Peters robbed Matt Shaw of a triple, if not an inside-the-park home run. On a ball I thought was ticketed for the gap, Peters laid out in a full Superman extension on an 8% catch probability to take extra bases away and immediately plug any momentum the Cubs were trying to concoct.

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With Jameson Taillon looking to take one for the team and pitch into the sixth, Andrew Benintendi joined the home run parade with a 406-foot dinger to right field, running Taillon out of the game and extending the Sox’s lead to 8-1.

As for the bullpen? Still a bit shaky. Brandon Eisert walked two in his inning of work in the seventh, but escaped the frame scoreless. Trevor Richards pitched a clean eighth, but the ninth gave him some trouble. Allowing a leadoff double to Michael Conforto, he gave up the longball to Crow-Armstrong for an 8-3 game. However, he ate the final six outs in tonight’s series-tying victory.

The White Sox reclaim a winning record at 23-22, while the Cubs drop to 29-17.

The Good Guys look to take the series in tomorrow’s rubber match against the Bad Guys, starting at 1:10 p.m. CT on CHSN and ESPN 1000.

(•_•)( •_•)>⌐■-■(⌐■_■)Who was tonight’s South Side MVP?Davis Martin: 6.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 7 KMiguel Vargas:1-for-4, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 HRMunetaka Murakami: 2-for-3, 3 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 2 HRColson Montgomery: 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 HRDefensive Tristan Peters: 1 8% catch probability snagSam Antonacci: 2-for-4, 2 R, 1 K pollcode.com free pollsWho was the Crosstown Classic’s Cool Cat?Chase Meidroth: 0-for-4Jarred Kelenic: 0-for-3, 2 KOffensive Tristan Peters: 0-for-2, 1 BBDrew Romo: 0-for-3, 1 KTrevor Richards: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 K pollcode.com free polls

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