The White Sox survive a worrying situation again at the bottom of the fourth inning as the Guardians fail to convert a Bases Loaded situation.

Brayan Rocchio is the man with the chance to get them back into this game but he lines out to right field to leave his team-mates stranded.

The White Sox hit the front with a crushed 440-foot home run by Munetaka Murakami.

The Japanese All-Star knew from the moment it left his bat that it was leaving the park as he delivers the White Sox first home run of the post-season.

Miguel Vargas scores too after a single earlier in the inning and the White Sox lead 2-0.

Hudson is able to get the White Sox to safety and ensures the Guardians leave the bases loaded.

He gets to a full count with Chase DeLauter at bat, but DeLauter ends up lining out to left field and it stays scoreless.

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White Sox pitcher Hagen Smith had made a near-perfect start but now he is out of the game after giving up three consecutive walks.

The White Sox turn to Bryan Hudson to get themselves out of trouble with the bases loaded.

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For the Guardians Parker Messick has six strikeouts so far, giving up just one hit and seeming to be really fired up on home turf.

Here we go then with the first game of the Division Series.

Chase Meidroth is at the plate for the White Sox and Parker Messick is on the mound for the Guardians.

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The Chicago White Sox are the fairytale story of the final eight.

They had become the laughing stock of Major League Baseball, recording three consecutive seasons with more than 100 losses before 2026, but this year everything has changed.

They finished with a respectable record of 84 wins to 78 losses which was just enough to edge into the American League Wild Card Series.

They were ruthless in that series earlier this week, dispatching the Houston Astros in two games to win a post-season series for the first time since 2005 - a special year in White Sox history because it delivered their first World Series title in nearly fifty years.

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The Guardians won the American League Central Division for the third season in a row to skip the Wild Card Series and move directly to this stage.

Their record of 85 wins to 77 defeats was only one better than the White Sox but they have experience vastly beyond their opponents of post-season baseball.

Their most recent Division Series was in 2024 when they overcame the Detroit Tigers only to fall to defeat against the New York Yankees in the final four.

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And welcome to the Division Series!

We are down to the final eight in the play-offs and the journey to the World Series at the end of October just keeps getting shorter.

Two of the sides left will make it there and play for the biggest prize of them all later this month, but first they have to come through this best-of-five challenge to book their place in the final four.

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We have two games on the BBC this evening with MLB Bases Covered Live.

Later we will head over to Los Angeles where the Dodgers will welcome the Atlanta Braves for the opening game of their National League Division Series contest.

But first it is the American League Division Series opener that sees the Chicago White Sox take on the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field.

Who will get off to the perfect start and who will be left playing catch-up? It's time for knockout baseball.