The 2026 MLB postseason continues Monday with Game 2 of both American League Division Series. The Chicago White Sox continued their perfect start to the playoffs, winning again over the Cleveland Guardians to take a 2-0 series lead. The White Sox are now 4-0 in the postseason, with all four victories coming on the road.
The New York Yankees, meanwhile, are trying to even their series against the Tampa Bay Rays behind Cy Young favorite Cam Schlittler. Since the best-of-five Division Series became a thing in 1995, the team that won Game 1 has gone on to win the series 73% of the time, and 32% of the time the series ended in a sweep. Winning Game 1 doesn't guarantee a series win, but the White Sox and Rays are in the driver's seat at the moment.
Here are the final scores and schedule for Monday's playoff action: To sum up all the ALDS Game 2 action, we're here to declare a winner and loser from both games. You can find those authoritative and inarguable declarations just below. For the second time this postseason, the three position players the White Sox received in the Garrett Crochet trade with the Red Sox guided them to a win.
They did it in Game 2 of the Wild Card Series against the Astros, and in Game 2 of the ALDS on Monday. Those three players -- Chase Meidroth, Braden Montgomery, Kyle Teel -- went a combined 4 for 12 with 3 RBI. Teel helped the White Sox get on the board with his leadoff single in the fourth inning.
He later came around to score Chicago's first run on a Munetaka Murakami single. Montgomery provided the game's biggest blow. He drove a two-out, two-run double to right field in the sixth inning, which flipped a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead for the White Sox.
This, as the kids say, is a nice piece of hitting: Meidroth followed with a single to right to score Montgomery and give the White Sox what proved to be an important insurance run. The Crochet trade bounty had four of Chicago's six hits in Game 2 and either scored or drove in all four runs. Sean Burke, who was not part of the Crochet trade, threw 5 ⅓ innings of one-run ball behind a pair of openers.
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