White Sox hold Cubs to two hits, avoid sweep with shutout win in Crosstown series finale
No brooms.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a> learned that the hard way Wednesday, with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" >White Sox</a> pitching silencing the second highest scoring offense in baseball in a 3-0 win that prevented a Crosstown sweep at Wrigley Field.</p><p>Led by six nearly perfect innings of relief from righty Jose Urquidy, Sox pitchers kept the Cubs to just two hits.</p><p>The Sox got the game’s first run in the sixth inning, finally breaking through against Cubs starter Clay Holmes with back-to-back hits from Miguel Vargas and Andrew Benintendi.</p><p>They struck again in the eighth, when outfielder Braden Montgomery doubled off Michael Busch’s glove at first base, bringing home a pair and creating some late-inning breathing room.</p><p>The Cubs mustered only a single scoring chance, and that was immediately erased. Outfielder Tyrone Taylor, who had both hits, doubled to start the Cubs’ half of the sixth inning, but he belatedly tagged on a Pete Crow-Armstrong lineout to right field, with Montgomery throwing him out at third base by a wide margin.</p><p>Urquidy, acquired in a July trade, was excellent, retiring 17 of the 19 hitters he faced and striking out eight.</p><p>The Cubs played their typical brand of terrific defense, with third baseman Alex Bregman, in particular, shining in the field a day after <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/08/18/cubs-white-sox-crosstown-alex-bregman-pete-crow-armstrong-munetaka-murakami-kevin-gausman" >he drove in the tying and winning runs Tuesday night</a>.
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No brooms.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a> learned that the hard way Wednesday, with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" >White Sox</a> pitching silencing the second highest scoring offense in baseball in a 3-0 win that prevented a Crosstown sweep at Wrigley Field.</p><p>Led by six nearly perfect innings of relief from righty Jose Urquidy, Sox pitchers kept the Cubs to just two hits.</p><p>The Sox got the game’s first run in the sixth inning, finally breaking through against Cubs starter Clay Holmes with back-to-back hits from Miguel Vargas and Andrew Benintendi.</p><p>They struck again in the eighth, when outfielder Braden Montgomery doubled off Michael Busch’s glove at first base, bringing home a pair and creating some late-inning breathing room.</p><p>The Cubs mustered only a single scoring chance, and that was immediately erased. Outfielder Tyrone Taylor, who had both hits, doubled to start the Cubs’ half of the sixth inning, but he belatedly tagged on a Pete Crow-Armstrong lineout to right field, with Montgomery throwing him out at third base by a wide margin.</p><p>Urquidy, acquired in a July trade, was excellent, retiring 17 of the 19 hitters he faced and striking out eight.</p><p>The Cubs played their typical brand of terrific defense, with third baseman Alex Bregman, in particular, shining in the field a day after <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/08/18/cubs-white-sox-crosstown-alex-bregman-pete-crow-armstrong-munetaka-murakami-kevin-gausman" >he drove in the tying and winning runs Tuesday night</a>. But good pitching and good defense wasn’t enough on a quiet day for the bats.</p><p>The Sox salvaging a victory Wednesday gave them a seventh win in their last 11 games.</p><p></p><p></p><bsp-listcarousel class="PageListE" data-module data-column-count=3 data-hide-authors="true" data-hide-categories="true" data-hide-dates="true" data-hide-descriptions="true" data-show-loadmore="true" ><a class="AnchorLink" id="list-c90005" name="list-c90005"></a><div class="PageList-header" > <div class="PageList-header-title-wrap" > <div class="PageList-header-title"> <a class="" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" target="{borderColor=#dfdfdf, pageNumber=1, titleUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs, inverseColors=false, footerBgColor=#000000, title=Latest on the Cubs, pullQuoteIcon=[{image=null, narrowImage=null, _template=/image/Image.hbs, alt=null}], bodyFont=font-3, showListNumbers=false, imagePositionHorizontal=null, rteBodyFont=font-3, headerBottomBorderColor=#111010, subTitle=null, stickyHeader=true, pageCount=4731, listTitleColor=#000000, tableCellBorderColor=#ccd1d5, items=[{title=Acusan a hombre de darle puñetazo a otro aficionado en el partido de los Cubs contra los Sox en Wrigley Field, type=Image, wordCount=231, media=[{ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, _template=/image/Image.hbs, narrowImage={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/07/ad/9a693f814bef89c499ed08f7dde4/2290939482.jpg, width=2098, height=1399}, image={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/07/ad/9a693f814bef89c499ed08f7dde4/2290939482.jpg, width=2098, height=1399}, alt=***BESTPIX*** Chicago White Sox v Chicago Cubs}], _styledTemplate=null, imageAlignment=null, isFeatured=false, url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2026/08/19/acusan-a-hombre-de-darle-punetazo-a-otro-aficionado-en-el-partido-de-los-cubs-contra-los-sox-en-wrigley-field, anchorId=promo-e60000, timestamp=1787159013000, target=null, primaryMediaType=null, category=[{items=[La Voz]}], description=[{items=[La pelea no estaba relacionada con una riña en las gradas captada en un video ampliamente compartido en redes sociales, según la Policía de Chicago. Ocurrió afuera de un baño cuando el partido estaba terminando, según los registros judiciales.]}], publishDate=August 19, 2026 12:03 PM, ampLink=null, audio=[], categoryUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz, audioDuration=null, authors=[{media=[{narrowImage={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/4e/93/238b873246159f6c08090bc7335f/struett.jpg, width=4982, height=4982}, ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, _template=/image/Image.hbs, image={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/4e/93/238b873246159f6c08090bc7335f/struett.jpg, width=4982, height=4982}, alt=Struett.jpg}], jobTitle=[{items=[Reporter/assistant news editor]}], ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, _template=/author/byline/AuthorByline.hbs, authorPageUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/david-struett, name=[{items=[David Struett]}], bio=[{items=[David Struett is a general assignment reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.
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- No brooms.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a> learned that the hard way Wednesday, with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox" >White Sox</a> pitching silencing the second highest scoring offense in baseball in a 3-0 win that prevented a Crosstown sweep at Wrigley Field.</p><p>Led by six nearly perfect innings of relief from righty Jose Urquidy, Sox pitchers kept the Cubs to just two hits.</p><p>The Sox got the game’s first run in the sixth inning, finally breaking through against Cubs starter Clay Holmes with back-to-back hits from Miguel Vargas and Andrew Benintendi.</p><p>They struck again in the eighth, when outfielder Braden Montgomery doubled off Michael Busch’s glove at first base, bringing home a pair and creating some late-inning breathing room.</p><p>The Cubs mustered only a single scoring chance, and that was immediately erased. Outfielder Tyrone Taylor, who had both hits, doubled to start the Cubs’ half of the sixth inning, but he belatedly tagged on a Pete Crow-Armstrong lineout to right field, with Montgomery throwing him out at third base by a wide margin.</p><p>Urquidy, acquired in a July trade, was excellent, retiring 17 of the 19 hitters he faced and striking out eight.</p><p>The Cubs played their typical brand of terrific defense, with third baseman Alex Bregman, in particular, shining in the field a day after <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/08/18/cubs-white-sox-crosstown-alex-bregman-pete-crow-armstrong-munetaka-murakami-kevin-gausman" >he drove in the tying and winning runs Tuesday night</a>.
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