edgar quero ended it with one swing Sunday, sending the White Sox past the Cubs 9-8 in the Crosstown Classic finale. His walk-off two-run home run gave Chicago the series and snapped a drought that had lasted since 2022.
Quero Ends It
The game was tied 4-4 with two outs in the bottom of the eighth when Tristan Peters changed the inning with a three-run home run, putting the White Sox in front 7-4. That lead did not hold. Michael Conforto answered with a three-run home run in the top of the ninth to bring the Cubs level at 7-7 before Quero finished the job in the bottom half.
Quero’s homer was the final blow in a game that kept swinging back and forth late. The White Sox had to answer a Cubs rally in the ninth, then produced one more in their own half of the inning to close out the 9-8 win.
White Sox-Cubs In October
The series result carried weight because the White Sox had not won a series against the Cubs since 2022. Game 1 went to the Cubs by five runs, Game 2 went to the White Sox by five runs, and Game 3 stayed tied until the late-inning barrage turned it into a decisive finish.
Both Chicago teams were playing each other over.500 for the first time since 2008, which turned the finale into more than a single-game swing. The White Sox had been enduring a two-year rebuild and had been surging in May, while the Cubs were built to contend and the White Sox were built to contend eventually.
Will Venable’s club took the series by answering a 7-7 tie with the last run of the night, and the final score left the White Sox with the more important number: three games, one series, and a result that ended a stretch against the Cubs that had run through 2022.
