None of that made this a clean night for either side. The price tilted toward the road team coming off a winning stretch, and this game had no interest in settling early.
Seiya Suzuki and Crow-Armstrong went deep back-to-back in the 1st inning to stake the Cubs to an early lead, but Castillo settled in and the White Sox clawed all the way back, plating 3 runs in the 4th to erase it. Chicago pushed back in front late when Andrew Benintendi took reliever Ryan Zeferjahn deep in the 8th, only for Nico Hoerner to tie it right back up with an RBI single in the bottom of the 9th. The teams traded zeroes until Crow-Armstrong ended it with his second homer of the night in the 10th, a walk-off that sent Wrigley into a frenzy.
The result matters beyond the box score. Both of these clubs are playing meaningful August baseball for the first time in years — the White Sox sit atop the AL Central and the Cubs are running away with the top NL Wild Card spot — and this series is the kind of measuring-stick baseball this city hasn't had much of lately. The Sox will need a response from a bullpen that got stretched in extras, and the Cubs bank a signature Crosstown win before the set moves on.