White Sox sweep Astros, win first playoff series since 2005

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The Chicago White Sox completed a sweep of the Houston Astros with a 7-3 win in Houston to clinch the AL Wild Card Series, their first postseason series victory since 2005. The White Sox scored big in the first inning and Chase Meidroth hit a three-run home run that helped put the game out of reach. Astros starter Hunter Brown lasted just 0.2 innings and allowed four runs as Houston’s night unraveled. Erick Fedde closed out the victory, later saying "I’m so glad they chose me with the ball and to give the team the win this whole fan base deserved." With the series sweep the White Sox advance to the American League Division Series and their upcoming games will move from Peacock to TBS and truTV for the remainder of the postseason coverage. Owner Jerry Reinsdorf joked he may convert to Catholicism after the win and said he received a letter from the Pope celebrating the milestone.

Ken Tremendous

@kentremendous.bsky.social

Acceptable World Series Title Winners: 1. Padres 2. Brewers 3. Rays 4. Guardians 5. White Sox 6. Braves 7. Dodgers [large gap] [chasm] [black hole] [endless gaping maw] 8. no one

3339d ago

Widespread Moral Panic11

Padres? The team whose star got suspended for PEDs and whose other "star" does interviews in Let's Go Brandon tees? Nah

PRuss4

Whoever is most likely to turn down an invitation to visit the White House.

rsanwald.bsky.social3

I feel like you forgot someone…

Drew Misemer is too damn busy...2

The White Sox are not last! WOOO!

Chantilly2

I want to see if the Pope does anything if the White Sox win.

ΜΜΠ🇬🇷2

Braves could be higher without the chop and should be below the Dodgers as long as they keep it

Quoting this

David🇵🇸2

I appreciate where he is coming from here, but you can go ahead and insert that gulf after number five

Jim Margalus

@soxmachine.com

The 2026 White Sox will get a postseason game at home, and that should be something to behold.

429d ago

James Fegan

@jrfegan.bsky.social

Poetic justice in Erick Fedde, a bright spot of the nightmarish 2024 season, getting to close out a White Sox postseason victory. “I’m so glad they chose me with the ball and to give the team the win this whole fan base deserved" chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/20...

419d ago

Stephen Nelson

@stephennelson.bsky.social

Dad sending emotional and fired up texts about the Sox have been the best part of the 2026 baseball season. First is from after the postseason clinch. Second is from tonight. Vintage Pops 😂

Text from my dad about the White Sox, from after they clinched a postseason berth: "they havent won anything yet but its already one of my favkrite Sox teams of my lifetime."

519d ago

Stephen Nelson29

Another reminder that it’s all relative, right? The Dodgers have been to the post more years consecutively (14, w/ 13 division titles) than the White Sox have been in their entire history (12). Some seemingly insignificant wins/accomplishments mean a helluva lot to a helluva lot.

janice v - division series edition2

stephen, I’m so excited!!! we are not used to…what do you call this feeling? hope?

darealsakimae.bsky.social2

Pulling for them in the AL so we can get more Murakami celebration interviews

Asinwreck1

We are with you and your father, Stephen. On to Cleveland!

Sara Sanchez1

I love everything about this.

Sen. Lemon Gogurt

@ugarles.bsky.social

How can this be what you are thinking about after the White Sox swept the Astros, Your Holiness

529d ago

Sen. Lemon Gogurt35

i apologize to the OP i was making a dumb joke but perhaps doing so on a post about the pope righteously opposing the death penalty by a stranger was not the right time

David1

Yes but the Red Sox were tortured and then executed on national television

Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️

@velodus.bsky.social

I'm gonna have to reconsider my disbelief in Catholicism if we wind up with a White Sox-Padres world series

429d ago

kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar)

@booksandbows.bsky.social

best MLB postseason outcomes for narrative, storytelling, and avoidance of rewarding evil imo: - padres - brewers - white sox - guardians hate the rest of them for various reasons so fuck em

339d ago

kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar)16

the most important thing is that the d*dgers must be humiliated. who will have the courage?

🦩Bob🦩2

Pope gonna keep pullin’ them strings…

Spooka Dončić 🎃👻1

I’m pushing all my chips into the middle of the table for the White Sox even if they probably are this year’s Just Happy To Be There team

john j. kim

@jkimpictures.bsky.social

White Sox advance to American League Division Series pictures: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/30/a...

White Sox players, coaches and staff gather for a group photograph after a 7-3 win over the Astros in Game 2 of the wild-card series to advance to the American League Division Series on Sept. 30, 2026, in Houston. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

189d ago

Trooper Galactus

@troopergalactus.bsky.social

Cubs Fans: I watched MY team shit the bed last night. Did YOUR team shit the bed last night? White Sox Fans: My team was knockout drunk on the floor after celebrating their postseason series win. Cubs Fans: Oh.

Kirk Van Houten “I sleep in a race car” Simpsons meme

139d ago

Seattle Sports

@seattlesports710.bsky.social

The White Sox used a big first inning and a three-run homer from Chase Meidroth to propel themselves to a 7-3 win over the Astros to sweep their AL Wild Card Series. sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

209d ago

brooke bikes mke

@brookebikesmke.bsky.social

I learned about this from the radio broadcast of today’s White Sox/Astros game, and I’m obsessed.

139d ago

Mike Praznowski

@praz.bsky.social

Go Padres the rest of the way in the NL. Go White Sox the rest of the way in the AL.

139d ago

Dan Bernstein

@danbernstein.bsky.social

Just an inexcusably flaccid #Cubs performance to slam the door on the season. Brutal all around. #WhiteSox need to make room on the bandwagon -- the country will love them when they can finally see them. DBU on @312SportsChi.bsky.social. Links in replies.

148d ago

Neal Pretty Boy Thomas

@prettyboy25.bsky.social

If the White Sox win the World Series it will be the greatest one year turn around is sports history. Good guys wear black. #WhiteSox

138d ago

Astros Fans UK

@astrosfansuk.bsky.social

The Final Extra Innings - the Astros Fans UK next-day recap: AL Wild Card Game 2 - Astros 3-7 White Sox Check out ‘3 Up, 3 Down’ as I look at the key points from a dismaying season-ending defeat. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS WATCHED EXTRA INNINGS! #ChaseTheFight #Astros

118d ago

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