Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox

KC 2 — CWS 6

Final — 2026-05-14

Game MVP: Anthony Kay — 6.0 IP, 4 K, 2 ER

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

WP Anthony Kay (3-1)

LP Kris Bubic (3-2)

SV Sean Newcomb (1)

Scoring Plays

Top 1: Thomas hit sacrifice fly to center, Garcia scored. (0-1)

Bot 1: Grichuk homered to left center (401 feet), Murakami scored. (2-1)

Bot 3: Grichuk singled to center, Meidroth scored and Vargas scored, Murakami to second. (4-1)

Bot 4: Meidroth singled to center, Acuña scored. (5-1)

Top 7: Garcia grounded out to shortstop, Isbel scored. (5-2)

Bot 8: Hill singled to center, Antonacci scored. (6-2)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Kris Bubic	4.0	5	5	5	3	4	1	84-50	4.11	L, 3-2
Luinder Avila	2.0	0	0	0	2	2	0	33-17	5.28
Alex Lange	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10-8	5.23
Lucas Erceg	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	15-8	3.63

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Anthony Kay	6.0	6	2	2	2	4	97-62	4.61	W, 3-1
Tyler Davis	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	9-4	4.00
Sean Newcomb	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	26-18	2.81	S, 1

Venue: Rate Field, Chicago, Illinois (14,913)

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

Broadcast: RYTV | CHSN