{"id":813416,"date":"2026-09-24T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/813416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:00:46","slug":"mlb-playoffs-in-chicago-cubs-white-sox-make-it-a-rare-windy-city-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/813416\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Playoffs In Chicago! Cubs, White Sox Make It A Rare Windy City Postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the fourth time in MLB history, there will be playoff baseball in both Chicago’s North Side and South Side.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Chicago White Sox<\/a> became the first team to follow consecutive 100-loss seasons by reaching the playoffs on the same day the Chicago Cubs<\/a> clinched their second straight postseason berth.<\/p>\n

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The previous seasons in which both teams reached the playoffs were in 1906, 2008 and the expanded field in 2020. The 1906 season was the only in which there was a Windy City World Series, with the White Sox beating the Cubs.<\/p>\n

The White Sox could still win the AL Central as they remain in a battle with the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>. The White Sox already have the most wins (82) for a club coming off three straight 100-loss years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for the Cubs, Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> joined the 40-40 club by stealing his 40th base to go along with his major league-leading 45 home runs to assure one of the NL’s three wild card berths.<\/p>\n

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A favorite to win the NL MVP award, Crow-Armstrong became the seventh 40-40 player, joining a group that includes Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> star Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and Atlanta Braves<\/a> outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> Jose Canseco was the first with the 1988 Oakland Athletics.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the fourth time in MLB history, there will be playoff baseball in both Chicago’s North Side and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,24,49,2561,19,4,35,396,2562],"class_list":["post-813416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117328270039870351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813416","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=813416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}