{"id":654607,"date":"2026-03-31T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:09:22","slug":"white-soxs-miguel-vargas-joins-1936-rip-radcliff-in-impressive-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654607\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox&#8217;s Miguel Vargas joins 1936 Rip Radcliff in impressive franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Vargas calls Miami home.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he was a visitor for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a>, but he sure did look right at home.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas hit a grand slam as part of a 2-for-4 day that included six RBI.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he became just the third player in White Sox franchise history to have a game with six RBI out of the leadoff spot, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jayhaykid\/status\/2038817710138667215\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to stats guru @JayHayKid on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent was Yoan Moncada, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Rip Radcliff also achieved the feat in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>And how about some Rip Radcliff fun facts while we&#8217;re here:<\/p>\n<p>Full name: Raymond Allen RadcliffDidn&#8217;t debut in MLB until 28 years oldLed the AL in hits for the St. Louis Browns in 1940 with 200 exactlyAlso made an All-Star team with the White Sox in 1936 en route to hitting .335Career .311 hitter who didn&#8217;t play what would&#8217;ve been a couple more seasons at the end of his career due to serving in World War II<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/news\/terrance-gore-son-honors-dad-perfect-first-pitch-royals-home-opener\/0d6f0212372e3fa358873a70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrance Gore&#8217;s son honors dad with perfect first pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to Vargas &#8212; he had a career-high .717 OPS last season with 60 RBI, so this is a strong start to the new season to try and build off that.<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday, he did it with familiar faces in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving my family here was a great motivation and to be able to give them that happiness and for them to have had enjoyed it as well was a special moment,\u201d Vargas said in Spanish after the game, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/miguel-vargas-drives-in-6-runs-hits-grand-slam-in-white-sox-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">via MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox have also now hit back-to-back grand slams for the fourth time in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago was swept over the weekend, but thanks to Vargas, the White Sox have their first win.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miguel Vargas calls Miami home. On Monday, he was a visitor for the Chicago White Sox, but he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-654607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-white-sox","14":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116324425065670109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}