FINAL May 8, 2026
May 8, 2026 · AL Cent

Seattle Mariners vs Chicago White Sox

May 8, 2026Rate FieldPartly Cloudy 58°F · 10 mph, L To R
AWAY
Seattle Mariners
19-20
12
vs
HOME
Chicago White Sox
17-21
8

Starting pitchers

AWAY · SEA
Emerson Hancock
Emerson Hancock
IP 6
HOME · CWS
Sean Burke
Sean Burke
IP 4.1

Lineups

AWAY · SEA
  1. 1 Brendan Donovan 3B
  2. 2 Cal Raleigh C
  3. 3 Julio Rodríguez CF
  4. 4 Josh Naylor 1B
  5. 5 Randy Arozarena LF
  6. 6 J.P. Crawford SS
  7. 7 Luke Raley RF
  8. 8 Dominic Canzone DH
  9. 9 Cole Young 2B
HOME · CWS
  1. 1 Sam Antonacci LF
  2. 2 Munetaka Murakami 1B
  3. 3 Miguel Vargas 3B
  4. 4 Colson Montgomery SS
  5. 5 Chase Meidroth 2B
  6. 6 Andrew Benintendi DH
  7. 7 Jarred Kelenic RF
  8. 8 Tristan Peters CF
  9. 9 Drew Romo C

Box score

  123456789 R
SEA 014010330 12
CWS 104000021 8

Manager comparison

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

AWAY · SEA
Dan Wilson
B- Lineup 1.3 R Bunts 0.2 R IBBs 0.8 R
HOME · CWS
Will Venable
D- Lineup 3.2 R Bunts 2.2 R IBBs 1.1 R

Recent form

AWAY · SEA
5-5 W2 +2 run diff
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HOME · CWS
6-4 L3 +9 run diff
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Season series: 1-0 with SEA listed first across 1 prior meeting.

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 · Seattle Mariners
  • Manager lineup cost +0.01 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 3.90 vs actual lineup 3.90
  • Player execution +8.10 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 3.90 projection by 8.10 (scored 12)
  • Game variance +8.10 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Raley HR from the 7-hole

HOME · Chicago White Sox
  • Manager lineup cost +0.11 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 3.55 vs actual lineup 3.44
  • Player execution +4.56 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 3.44 projection by 4.56 (scored 8)
  • Game variance +4.45 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Lineup spots out of order vs season production

COUNTERFACTUAL

Optimal lineups projected 3.9 – 3.5 — actual was 12 – 8.

GAME INSIGHTS
  • Dan Wilson (SEA) has run 27 distinct starting lineups across 30 games this season — that's 90% turnover game-to-game. Most managers stay below 14 for the same span.
  • Colson Montgomery reaches base in 20 consecutive games
    Colson Montgomery (CWS) has reached base safely in 20 straight games — past the 20-game watermark.
  • Will Venable (CWS) has run 30 distinct starting lineups across 30 games this season — that's 100% turnover game-to-game. Most managers stay below 14 for the same span.

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.