{"id":678496,"date":"2026-04-18T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:42:42","slug":"munetaka-murakami-hits-1st-mlb-grand-slam-as-white-sox-thump-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678496\/","title":{"rendered":"Munetaka Murakami Hits 1st MLB Grand Slam as White Sox Thump Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Munetaka Murakami<\/a> hit his first career grand slam, Davis Martin<\/a> gave up three hits over seven innings, and the Chicago White Sox<\/a> beat the Athletics<\/a> 9-2<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Murakami went 3 for 5 with singles in the third and fourth innings before his 431-foot grand slam in the seventh, the third of the season for the White Sox, who now lead the majors. It was Murakami’s sixth homer of the season.<\/p>\n

The White Sox had 15 hits. A’s starting pitcher Aaron Civale<\/a> (2-1) gave up a career-high 11 through 4 2\/3 innings. He threw 103 pitches and gave up five earned runs with four strikeouts and a walk.<\/p>\n

Colson Montgomery<\/a> doubled in a run in the first to get the White Sox rolling early and followed it up with an RBI single in the third. Edgar Quero<\/a> hit an RBI groundout in the third and Luisangel Acuna<\/a> and Andrew Benintendi<\/a> both hit RBI doubles in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Martin (3-1) had four strikeouts and gave up three hits, two walks and only one earned run.<\/p>\n

Nick Kurtz<\/a> hit an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth for the Athletics, sending Shea Langeliers<\/a> home, and Andy Ibanez<\/a> drove in Max Muncy<\/a> in the bottom of the eighth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The White Sox and Athletics continue their three-game series on Saturday, with Erick Fedde<\/a> (0-3, 3.38 ERA) taking the mound for Chicago opposite Luis Severino<\/a> (0-2, 5.59).<\/p>\n

Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munetaka Murakami hit his first career grand slam, Davis Martin gave up three hits over seven innings, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[2132,1000,3806,537,5,138,49,2561,10448,5285,458,133,76469,1327,2186,19,1532,4,73,459,3442,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-678496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-aaron-civale","9":"tag-andrew-benintendi","10":"tag-andy-ibanez","11":"tag-athletics","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-white-sox","15":"tag-chicagowhitesox","16":"tag-colson-montgomery","17":"tag-davis-martin","18":"tag-edgar-quero","19":"tag-erick-fedde","20":"tag-event_recap","21":"tag-luis-severino","22":"tag-luisangel-acuna","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-max-muncy","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-munetaka-murakami","27":"tag-nick-kurtz","28":"tag-shea-langeliers","29":"tag-white-sox","30":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116426712357112642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678496","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=678496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}