originally scheduled June 11 meeting<\/a> that was postponed because of storms.<\/p>\n\u201cI thought the fans did a great job for a midweek day game that\u2019s made up, coming out and giving the boys some juice there,\u201d Venable said.<\/p>\n
It nearly became a day for the record books.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow the day was going, I felt like I could throw it anywhere and they were going to hit it to somebody,\u201d Holmes told reporters covering the Braves. \u201cI was just keeping that mindset, trying to fill up the zone as quick as possible, get the outs as quick as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust keep the team in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Braves starter Grant Holmes reacts in the first inning against the White Sox on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, at Rate Field. (Geoff Stellfox\/Getty)<\/p>\n
Holmes retired the first five Sox batters before Colson Montgomery reached on a one-out walk in the second inning. The Sox didn\u2019t have another base runner until the sixth, when Romo walked with one out.<\/p>\n
There were a pair of hard-hit balls that were caught \u2014 Miguel Vargas lined out to third in the fourth inning, and Braden Montgomery lined out to first in the fifth. But neither was close to being a hit.<\/p>\n
The Sox trailed 2-0 in the seventh when Vargas walked leading off the inning. Benintendi followed with the single on a 3-1 slider.<\/p>\n
That was it for Holmes, who threw 94 pitches in the outing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re going to have different challenges you have to solve for and obviously the slider was one of them today,\u201d Venable said. \u201cAnd he just did a good job with everything really. It was just one of those games where you\u2019ve got to find a way, and we just couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reliever Didier Fuentes entered for the Braves with runners on first and second and no outs. He struck out Braden Montgomery, Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth.<\/p>\n
That was the best offensive opportunity of the game for the Sox, who were shut out for the ninth time this season. The first-place Sox (66-61) hold a 3\u00bd game lead in the American League Central over the second-place Minnesota Twins (63-65), who were off Thursday.<\/p>\n
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White Sox designated hitter Andrew Benintendi walks off after striking out to end the game against the Braves on Aug. 20, 2026, at Rate Field. The Sox lost 2-0. (Geoff Stellfox\/Getty)<\/p>\n
Anthony Kay pitched well in the loss, allowing two runs on five hits with six strikeouts and one walk in six-plus innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like we had a pretty good game plan against these guys,\u201d Kay said. \u201cMe and Drew executed pretty well. I was in the zone a lot, got good pitcher\u2019s counts and that led to some good results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Venable said Kay\u2019s sweeper, in particular, was effective.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe worked on it a little bit, just the way I was releasing it my last outing was a little off so it was a big focus in between starts to figure that back out and get it back in the zone,\u201d Kay said. \u201cI think the results show we were pretty good with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Austin Riley drove in both Braves runs. He had an RBI double against Kay in the third and an RBI single against reliever Huascar Brazob\u00e1n in the seventh, driving in Michael Harris II, who had reached on a double against Kay.<\/p>\n
The Braves were 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position but produced just enough offensively to top the Sox.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys are a really good team also,\u201d Kay said. \u201cI think you have to be on top of your A-game against everyone in this league. Especially a team like them, they are really good. I think we were ready. It just didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox designated hitter Andrew Benintendi made sure there wouldn\u2019t be history Thursday, breaking up a no-hitter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[1000,10945,46,5,6080,1001,138,49,2561,10448,640,4154,4,27889,396,2562,998],"class_list":["post-784060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-andrew-benintendi","tag-anthony-kay","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-braden-montgomery","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-grant-holmes","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mlb","tag-one-hitter","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117130231088471062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784060","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=784060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}