Phillies Embarrassed By White Sox In Finale 9-3
Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner (7), left, can't catch Chicago White Sox's Luis Robert Jr. (88) as he steals second during the sixth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Waited hours on end to get embarrassed.
After a three-and-a-half-hour rain delay, the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox eventually finished the finale of their three-game series, with the Phillies getting destroyed 9-3. It was a close matchup for the majority of the game; however, a seven-run seventh inning for the White Sox blew the game open. The Phillies allowed 17 hits in the loss, the third most they’ve allowed in a game all season.
While the game kicked off at 4:45 p.m. CDT, both teams struggled to get going in the first inning. White Sox starter Tyler Alexander was filling in for Adrian Houser, who was scratched before the start of the game, and got going quickly, sending the Phillies down in order in the top half of the inning.
Taijuan Walker was on the mound for the Phillies and, despite allowing a leadoff single to start his day, worked around to get out of the first. Strikouts from Nick Castellanos and Brandon Marsh quickly ended the Phillies’ second inning. Once again, Walker allowed a hit to start an inning in the second, only this time it was a long hit. White Sox rookie catcher Kyle Teel smoked a ball deep to right field for a solo home run, making it 1-0 Chicago.
The hits weren’t done there for the White Sox as Luis Robert Jr. singled on a line drive to left, but was thrown out trying to steal second, and Edgar Quero doubled to left. Walker worked around the runner in scoring position, getting a pair of flyouts to end the second.
No runs from either team in the third, but in the top of the fourth, the Phillies finally got some runs on the board. It started with a double off the bat of Bryce Harper for the Phillies’ first hit of the game, and he scored two pitches later on a line drive single to left by Castellanos to tie the game at one.
Another single by Marsh put two runners on for Otto Kemp, and he smacked the third single in a row, a grounder up the middle to score Castellanos and make it 2-1 Phillies.
A ground ball double play off the bat of Bryson Stott ended that inning, but the Phillies had the lead. Unfortunately, that didn’t last long. After picking up two quick outs, Colson Montgomery smoked a splitter to left center field that snuck its way over the wall to tie the game at two.
1-2-3 went the Phillies in the fifth, and despite a single from Mike Tauchman and a hit by pitch to Chase Meidroth, Walker got two fly balls to end the inning. No runs from either team in the sixth, and in the top of the seventh, the Phillies went down in order again, with Kemp and Stott striking out to end the inning.
However, in the bottom half of the seventh, the White Sox blew the game open. Max Lazar was on the mound, and it quickly showed he did not have it on the mound. Josh Rojas led the inning off with a double, and Tauchman smoked another single, this time to center, but a fantastic throw by Johan Rojas got Josh Rojas out at home for the first out. Although that was the only out Lazar would record.
Lenyn Sosa singled to right to score Tauchman from second, and Andrew Benintendi singled as well to put two runners on. Miguel Vargas then dug into the box, and he smoked a ball deep to left for a three-run bomb to make it 6-2 White Sox. After the homer, Lazar then allowed two more singles, one to Teel and one to Robert, and was then pulled for Seth Johnson. Johnson picked up a strikeout for out number two, but while facing Quero, left a pitch a little too much over the plate, and he smoked it to left center for another three-run home run to make it 9-2.
Now down seven runs, the Phillies needed hits and runs quickly. In the top of the eighth, Rojas and Rafael Marchan led off the inning with back-to-back singles, but a flyout from Trea Turner and a Kyle Schwarber strikeout gave the Phillies two quick outs. Harper was up next and smoked a deep fly ball to left field over the wall, but Benintendi was able to reach over and rob Harper of a three-run blast to end the inning.
The White Sox added another hit in the bottom of the eighth but didn’t add any runs, and we moved to the top of the ninth. In the ninth, the Phillies got one run off the bat of Marsh, thanks to a solo home run to right to make it 9-3. Despite that and getting a two-out single from Stott and Rojas reaching on an error, Marchán popped out to third base to end the game with the White Sox winning 9-3.
Matt Brown
Matt has been a Philadelphia sports fan all his life and spent four years at Penn State University majoring in Broadcast Journalism and minoring in Sports Studies. He previously covered Penn State’s field hockey, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball teams while writing for a Penn State blog called Onward State. He has now covered the Phillies, Eagles, and Sixers for Philly Sports Reports since October 2024 and wants to pursue a career in Sports Journalism.
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