Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox

KC 5 — CWS 6

Final — 2026-05-12

Game MVP: Chase Meidroth — 1-4, 1 HR, 3 RBI

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	5	11	1
CWS	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	x	6	7	0

WP Seranthony Dominguez (3-3)

LP Matt Strahm (1-1)

SV Bryan Hudson (2)

Scoring Plays

Top 1: Witt Jr. homered to right (373 feet). (0-1)

Top 1: Perez homered to right center (381 feet). (0-2)

Bot 5: Romo homered to right (353 feet). (1-2)

Bot 5: Vargas singled to center, Antonacci scored. (2-2)

Bot 5: Meidroth homered to left (359 feet), Vargas scored and Montgomery scored. (5-2)

Top 6: Loftin doubled to left, Collins scored and Jensen scored. (5-4)

Top 6: Garcia singled to right, Loftin scored. (5-5)

Bot 8: Hill homered to left center (417 feet). (6-5)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Stephen Kolek	4.2	5	5	5	3	6	2	94-53	6.75
Luinder Avila	1.1	0	0	0	1	2	0	27-14	6.08
Daniel Lynch IV	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	13-11	2.08
Matt Strahm	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	1	14-9	4.02	L, 1-1

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Erick Fedde	5.0	6	2	2	1	2	2	80-49	3.77
T. Schweitzer	0.1	2	3	3	1	0	0	21-11	13.50
Grant Taylor	1.2	3	0	0	0	3	0	28-19	2.11
Seranthony Dominguez	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10-7	3.24	W, 3-3
Bryan Hudson	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7-6	0.90	S, 2

Venue: Rate Field, Chicago, Illinois (13,256)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Chris Conroy, First Base Umpire: Jen Pawol, Second Base Umpire: Ben May, Third Base Umpire: John Tumpane

Broadcast: RYTV | CHSN