ARCHIVE April 18, 2026
April 18, 2026 · AL West

Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics

April 18, 2026Sutter Health ParkPartly Cloudy 74°F · 1 mph, Calm
AWAY
Chicago White Sox
7-14
6
vs
HOME
Oakland Athletics
11-10
7

Starting pitchers

AWAY · CWS
Erick Fedde
Erick Fedde
IP 4.2
HOME · ATH
Luis Severino
Luis Severino
IP 5.1

Lineups

AWAY · CWS
  1. 1 Andrew Benintendi DH
  2. 2 Munetaka Murakami 1B
  3. 3 Miguel Vargas 3B
  4. 4 Colson Montgomery SS
  5. 5 Everson Pereira RF
  6. 6 Sam Antonacci LF
  7. 7 Chase Meidroth 2B
  8. 8 Tristan Peters CF
  9. 9 Reese McGuire C
HOME · ATH
  1. 1 Jeff McNeil 2B
  2. 2 Shea Langeliers DH
  3. 3 Nick Kurtz 1B
  4. 4 Tyler Soderstrom LF
  5. 5 Jacob Wilson SS
  6. 6 Carlos Cortes RF
  7. 7 Max Muncy 3B
  8. 8 Lawrence Butler CF
  9. 9 Austin Wynns C

Box score

  1234567891011 R
CWS 05000010000 6
ATH 01101120001 7

Manager comparison

Both managers grade D- / C- entering this matchup.

AWAY · CWS
Will Venable
D- Lineup 3.2 R Bunts 2.2 R IBBs 1.1 R
HOME · ATH
Mark Kotsay
C- Lineup 2.6 R Bunts 1.1 R IBBs 1.1 R

Recent form

AWAY · CWS
6-4 L3 +9 run diff
LLLWLWWWWW
HOME · ATH
5-5 W2 -1 run diff
WWLLWLLWWL

Season series: 2-1 with CWS listed first across 3 prior meetings.

Tactical analysis

RunsLeft separates manager decisions from player execution from game variance. Each card below is the same three-number framework that drives the share cards on the SPA replay page.

AWAY · Chicago White Sox
  • Manager lineup cost +0.14 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 4.16 vs actual lineup 4.02
  • Player execution +1.98 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 4.02 projection by 1.98 (scored 6)
  • Game variance +1.84 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Vargas 0-for-4 batting 3rd

HOME · Oakland Athletics
  • Manager lineup cost +0.06 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 3.63 vs actual lineup 3.57
  • Player execution +3.43 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 3.57 projection by 3.43 (scored 7)
  • Game variance +3.37 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Lineup spots out of order vs season production

COUNTERFACTUAL

Optimal lineups projected 4.2 – 3.6 — actual was 6 – 7.

Keep reading

How RunsLeft analyzes games

Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.

Read the full methodology.