{"id":79380,"date":"2026-09-30T19:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/white-sox-sweep-aside-astros-to-end-21-year-wait-for-playoff-series-win\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:54:54","slug":"white-sox-sweep-aside-astros-to-end-21-year-wait-for-playoff-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/white-sox-sweep-aside-astros-to-end-21-year-wait-for-playoff-series-win\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox sweep aside Astros to end 21-year wait for playoff series win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Meidroth\u2019s three-run homer powers Chicago to 7-3 win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>White Sox win first playoff series since 2005 title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Chicago advance to face Cleveland in AL Division Series<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chicago White Sox used a big first inning and a three-run homer from Chase Meidroth to propel them to a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday to sweep their AL Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time Chicago has won a playoff series since beating Houston in the World Series in 2005. Under the direction of second-year skipper Will Venable and with a letter of support from Pope Leo , the White Sox advanced to face AL Central champion Cleveland in the AL Division Series beginning Saturday in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/30\/white-sox-astros-al-wild-card-series-sweep\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meidroth\u2019s three-run homer powers Chicago to 7-3 win White Sox win first playoff series since 2005 title Chicago advance to face Cleveland in AL Division Series The Chicago White Sox used a big first inning and a three-run homer from Chase Meidroth to propel them to a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday &#8230; <a title=\"White Sox sweep aside Astros to end 21-year wait for playoff series win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/white-sox-sweep-aside-astros-to-end-21-year-wait-for-playoff-series-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White Sox sweep aside Astros to end 21-year wait for playoff series win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}