White Sox Detonate for 22 Runs, Bury Royals 22-1
The Chicago White Sox scored 22 runs on June 26, 2026, handing Kansas City a 22-1 demolition that looks like one of the most lopsided results of the season. Five different White Sox hitters went deep, and the carnage was essentially over before the fourth inning began.
The third inning is where Kansas City's night died. Miguel Vargas opened the scoring with a 372-foot homer to left, plating Gonzalez and Antonacci to make it 3-0 — a swing that pushed Chicago's win probability from 63% to 83% in a single at-bat. The inning didn't stop there. Chase Meidroth reached on an infield single to score Teel, then Tristan Peters singled to center to bring home Benintendi and Meidroth. Jacob Gonzalez then crushed a 349-foot shot to right, scoring B. Montgomery and Peters. Vargas added a run-scoring double to center before the frame was done. Ten runs. One inning. The Royals never had a chance to recover.
Kansas City scratched out its only run in the fourth when Witt Jr. scored on a Massey groundout into a double play, but that was the entirety of the Royals' offensive contribution. Chicago answered immediately: Benintendi homered to right (376 feet) in the bottom of the fourth to push it to 11-1. Teel went deep to right center (399 feet) in the fifth, scoring Vargas for 13-1. Peters then launched a grand slam equivalent — a 364-foot shot to right center in the sixth that scored C. Montgomery, Meidroth, and B. Montgomery, ballooning the lead to 17-1. The seventh inning piled on four more, capped by a Teel single to right that scored Gonzalez and closed the book at 22-1.
The story of the night was a White Sox lineup that looked unstoppable top to bottom. Peters finished 2-for-5 with 6 RBI and 3 runs scored. Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with a homer, 5 RBI, and 3 runs. Vargas matched him at 3-for-6 with a homer and 5 RBI. Meidroth went 4-for-5 with 3 runs scored. On the mound, David Sandlin handled the workload efficiently — 6.0 innings, 3 hits, 1 earned run, 6 strikeouts — and Trevor Richards and Jordan Hicks each threw a scoreless inning to close it out. For Kansas City, this appears to be another rough chapter in what is shaping up to be a difficult stretch, particularly with Cole Ragans expected to undergo surgery on a left elbow impingement that has kept him out since early May, per ESPN. The Royals' rotation depth is being tested, and nights like this one don't help.