White Sox top Diamondbacks 4-1 behind strong pitching effort

Andrew Benintendi turned a tight game into a polished Chicago finish, driving a 410-foot three-run homer into the Chase Field pool area in right-center and sending the White Sox past Arizona 4-1. The blast, Benintendi’s second of the season, came after Chase Meidroth drew a four-pitch walk, Tristan Peters laid down a sacrifice bunt and pinch-hitter Edgar Quero walked to load the bases against Paul Sewald.

The White Sox did not need much offense until the final inning because Grant Taylor and the bullpen kept Arizona from building on Adrian Del Castillo’s RBI double in the first. Taylor threw 1 2/3 scoreless innings, struck out Jose Fernandez to end the seventh with runners at second and third, and helped Chicago escape the middle innings without allowing the Diamondbacks to break through again. Juan Morillo worked a shutdown eighth, and Seranthony Domínguez closed the door with a perfect ninth for his fifth save. Taylor earned his first major league win of 2026 and improved to 1-0, while Sewald took the loss and fell to 0-3.

Chicago finished with 10 hits, including nine singles before Benintendi’s homer, and did not need a crooked number to control the night. The White Sox out-hit Arizona 10-8, committed no errors and stranded the Diamondbacks in a series of small, costly mistakes. Arizona stranded six runners and went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position, a sign that the White Sox pitching staff never allowed the game to settle into the kind of rhythm the Diamondbacks wanted.

Michael Soroka allowed one run and seven hits in five innings for Arizona, while Munetaka Murakami’s five-game home run streak ended as he went 1-for-5 with a single and three strikeouts. Chicago entered at 10-15 against Arizona’s 14-11 mark, so the result landed as more than a tidy road win. It gave the White Sox their third victory in four games and a two-games-to-one series win in Phoenix, a cleanly managed game that offered a sharper blueprint than a wild April slugfest.