Nobody in Comerica Park got a quiet night. The Tigers and White Sox traded the lead three separate times before Chicago finally pulled away behind a five-run 4th inning, and Barstool's baseball guys were locked in for every single swing.
Detroit struck first. Ben Malgeri, a 26-year-old who didn't even debut in the majors until late June after grinding through three seasons apiece at High-A West Michigan and Double-A Erie, put the Tigers up 2-1 with a two-run shot to left-center. Barstool Baseball caught the ball leaving the yard as an outfielder's desperate leap at the wall came up empty.
Ben Malgeri's two-run homer to left-center, with an outfielder's leaping attempt at the wall just missing it.
That lead didn't last. Chicago answered with a two-run blast of its own from Peters, tying the game 3-3 in the top of the 4th, and Barstool Chicago was hyping it up in real time.
Peters' two-run home run — 379 feet, 104.7 mph off the bat — that knotted the game at 3-3.
Then it kept going. Munetaka Murakami, the Japanese slugger the White Sox signed to a two-year, $34 million deal after he broke Sadaharu Oh's single-season NPB home run record back in 2022, put Chicago in front with a moonshot of his own — 392 feet, 110 mph off the bat. Barstool's account put it plainly: MUNESHOT.
Murakami's go-ahead solo homer, 392 feet at 110 mph, that put the White Sox up 4-3.
That was the inning that decided the game. Chicago's own whitesoxdave was screaming about it live, throwing out Vargas and Munoz hitting rope after rope as the White Sox turned a one-run deficit into a five-run frame — the kind of inning that gets a fanbase yelling at the TV about crooked numbers.
Absolutely love crooked numbers!!! Goddamn what an innning
The White Sox held on from there to close it out 6-3, snapping whatever midweek funk had them scuffling and giving the fanbase a genuinely fun one after a stretch where they've needed it. Murakami's power output continues to look like exactly what Chicago paid for when they landed him out of NPB, and Malgeri's homer is one more data point in a rookie season that started with a first-pitch single off the Yankees back in June and hasn't slowed down much since.