BOSTON – The Chicago White Sox have now won a road game in 2025. In their ninth road game of the season, the White Sox managed an 8-4 win over the Red Sox in the third of a four game series. Boston won the first two games of the set and the teams will meet once again on Monday with the traditional 11:10am start on Patriots’ Day, as the Boston Marathon winds its way past Fenway Park.
During Saturday’s game, it took 4 1/2 innings for a runner to advance to third base. Today, it was quite the opposite.
Chicago jumped out to a 2-0 lead when catcher Matt Thaiss hit his first home run of 2025, knocking in Luis Robert Jr. who had been given a free pass by Red Sox starter Tanner Houck in the at-bat immediately before Thaiss’ blast.
In the bottom of the first, Boston struck right back, largely at the hands of Chicago’s poor fielding. Both DH Rafael Devers and third baseman Alex Bregman reached base on errors before right fielder Wilyer Abreu belted a ball 387 feet to right field to make the score 3-2, Boston.
The White Sox struck back in the seventh inning, scoring three runs after Red Sox reliever Zack Kelly allowed a lead-off single to Chicago second baseman Lenyn Sosa, then hit two batters (Joshua Palacios and Miguel Vargas). Sosa scored on a sacrifice by pinch hitter Brooks Baldwin and the two hit batsman scored when pinch hitter Edgar Quero singled and the score turned to 5-4, Chicago.
The White Sox added two more runs in the eighth inning when Luis Robert Jr. singled and first baseman Andrew Vaughn homered off Boston’s recently reactivated reliever Liam Hendriks. That made the score 7-4, Chicago, and a crowd of 32,632 fans at Fenway Park turned quiet on a gorgeous 60-degree Easter Sunday afternoon.
Chicago added an insurance run in the top half of the ninth as a combination of singles, an error on Sox third baseman Alex Bregman, a stolen base, an intentional walk, and a hit batter forced in Baldwin to make the final score 8-4, Chicago.
Bregman’s error marked the 24th error committed by the Red Sox which are the most in baseball. The Red Sox have booted at least one play in 11 of 23 games, and are 4-7 in those games..