{"id":669227,"date":"2026-04-07T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:31:41","slug":"gunnar-henderson-homers-again-as-the-orioles-beat-the-white-sox-4-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669227\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunnar Henderson homers again as the Orioles beat the White Sox 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunnar Henderson hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in Baltimore&#8217;s three-run eighth inning, and the Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Tuesday for their eighth straight victory over the South Siders.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson, Tyler O&#8217;Neill and Blaze Alexander each had two hits for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orioles-raquet-trade-cardinals-young-eflin-c6ef70fd482caa8cae659968c35c31d2?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Baltimore<\/a>, which left 14 runners on base. Yennier Cano (1-1) got three outs for the win on a chilly afternoon, and Ryan Helsley handled the ninth for his fourth save.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander started the eighth-inning rally with a one-out double off Jordan Hicks (0-1). Ward followed with another double, tying it at 2.<\/p>\n<p>White Sox manager Will Venable then brought in left-hander Chris Murphy to face Henderson, a lefty batter. Henderson responded with his fourth homer, a line drive that hit the top of the wall in right-center on its way to the seats.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson also connected during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orioles-white-sox-score-94068e9fe9425dd96dbde2311720bd71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monday night&#8217;s 2-1 victory<\/a>\u00a0at Chicago, stopping a three-game slide for Baltimore. The Orioles are 23-5 against the White Sox since the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Meidroth had two hits for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/white-sox-austin-hays-4279b40eeb99fe948dd9013e535c4779?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago<\/a>, which dropped to 3-2 on a six-game homestand. Shane Smith struck out eight and walked five in 3 2\/3 scoreless innings in his third start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago jumped in front with a two-out rally in the third. Derek Hill singled and scored on Meidroth&#8217;s double, a liner to left that landed in front of a tumbling Ward. Lenyn Sosa added a run-scoring single to center for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore got one back on pinch-hitter Ryan Mountcastle&#8217;s grounder to shortstop in the fifth, driving in Samuel Basallo from third. But Sean Newcomb limited the damage by striking out Coby Mayo swinging, stranding a runner on second.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Bradish (0-2, 6.23 ERA) starts for Baltimore on Wednesday, and fellow right-hander Sean Burke (0-1, 3.60 ERA) pitches for Chicago in the finale of the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gunnar Henderson hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in Baltimore&#8217;s three-run eighth inning, and the Orioles beat the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[47,5,138,49,2561,19,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-669227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-major-league-baseball","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-white-sox","16":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116366035085893487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669227","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=669227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}