Doyle, Peters Torch Texas as White Sox Roll 10-4
The Chicago White Sox put up 10 runs on the Texas Rangers on August 26, 2026, with Brenton Doyle delivering the knockout blow — a 393-foot, three-run homer to left center in the sixth that pushed the lead to 10-2. Doyle finished 2-for-4 with a home run, 4 RBI, and 1 run scored; Tristan Peters went 3-for-4 with a homer, 2 RBI, and 2 runs scored.
Chicago jumped on MacKenzie Gore early. In the second inning, B. Montgomery doubled to right to score Meidroth, and Doyle followed with a single to left that scored Montgomery — though Doyle was thrown out stretching for second, killing what could have been an even bigger frame. Gore lasted just 3.2 innings, allowing 8 hits, 4 earned runs, and 4 walks against 4 strikeouts. The story of the night was how thoroughly the White Sox offense dismantled Texas's pitching every time the Rangers threatened to get back in it.
Texas's best moment — and its only real one — came in the third. Joc Pederson launched a 394-foot homer to right center that scored Freeman and knotted the game at 2-2. That swing pulled the home win probability from 76% down to 61%, a 15-point drop that made this feel, briefly, like a real contest. It wasn't. Chicago answered immediately. In the fourth, Vargas reached on an infield single to score Peters, then Antonacci singled to left to score Vargas, pushing the lead back to 4-2. Peters then went deep in the fifth — a 362-foot shot to right that scored Rogers and made it 6-2. The Rangers never got closer than four runs the rest of the way.
The sixth inning was where Texas's night officially collapsed. Antonacci singled to left again to score Vargas, making it 7-2, and then Doyle's three-run blast to left center — 393 feet — scored Murakami and Montgomery to put Chicago up 10-2. Ezequiel Duran's two-run single in the seventh gave Texas a cosmetic 10-4 final, but the game was long decided. On the mound, Chicago used three pitchers in a bullpen-style construction: Sean Newcomb went 3.0 innings allowing 0 earned runs, Jonathan Cannon followed with 3.0 innings and 2 earned runs, and Sean Burke closed out 3.0 innings with 2 earned runs but an alarming 8 walks. The walks from Burke look like a concern worth watching, but the offense made it irrelevant on this night. Sam Antonacci quietly went 2-for-3 with 2 RBI, and Miguel Vargas scored twice while going 2-for-3. This was a complete team performance from Chicago — top to bottom, the White Sox looked like a team that had no interest in letting Texas breathe.