White Sox Erase Four-Run Deficit, Walk Off on Rogers' Ninth-Inning Blast

Chicago trailed 4-0 heading into the sixth inning, then hit three consecutive home runs to tie it and never looked back. Jake Rogers' two-run shot to center in the ninth — 401 feet, win probability swinging from 62% to 100% — sealed a 6-4 White Sox win over the Mets on August 21.

New York built what looked like a comfortable cushion early. A Semien single in the second plated a run, and Baty's two-run double to right in the fourth pushed the lead to 3-0. Bichette added a solo shot to left — 345 feet — in the fifth to make it 4-0, and at that point the Mets appeared to be firmly in control. Sean Burke had given up 7 hits and 4 earned runs across his 6 innings, but the White Sox offense had nothing to show for it.

Then the sixth inning happened, and it happened fast. Vargas launched a 405-foot two-run homer to left, cutting the deficit to two. One batter later, Grichuk went deep to left center at 400 feet to make it 4-3. Then Colson Montgomery — in the same inning — hit one 399 feet to right to tie the game at four. Three home runs, three consecutive batters, the entire lead erased. The story of the night was that sixth inning: it's hard to overstate how completely it flipped the game's complexion. Sean Manaea had held Chicago to 5 hits and 4 earned runs across 6 innings, but he wasn't around to see the damage — and the Mets' bullpen couldn't hold what the offense had built.

The game stayed knotted through the seventh and eighth, with Nate Lavender tossing 1.1 scoreless innings for New York and Jordan Hicks handling a clean ninth for Chicago. Then Rogers stepped up in the bottom of the ninth and ended it — a 401-foot shot to center that scored B. Montgomery ahead of him, pushing Chicago to 6-4 and swinging the win probability from 62% to 100% in a single swing. Vargas finished 2-for-3 with a homer and 2 RBI, Grichuk went 2-for-3 with a homer and an RBI, and Rogers — quiet all night at 1-for-4 — delivered the only hit that mattered. For the Mets, Baty's 2-for-4, 2-RBI night and Bichette's homer weren't enough. This one looks like a game New York will want back.