← Full bracket2026 AL Wild Card Series · best of 3
No. 3 seed
Houston Astros
0
No. 6 seed
Chicago White Sox
2
White Sox win 2-0
Games
How the series was won.
Game 1
Tue, Sep 29Final
White Sox 6
at
Astros 3
Daikin Park
White Sox lead 1-0
The regular season
How each club finished. Records, not ratings.
AstrosWhite Sox
Regular season81-8184-78
Division1st in AL West2nd in AL Central, 1 GB
At home39-4248-33
On the road42-3936-45
Last 105-57-3
The Astros won the regular-season series 5-2.
How they got here
Astros
- Won the AL West at 81-81 · No. 3 seed
White Sox
- AL Wild Card at 84-78 · No. 6 seed
The White Sox advance to the AL Division Series against the Guardians. →
The series standing is counted from final scores. Seeds and regular-season records are MLB's own. Description, not prediction. Bracket as of Sep 30, 6:44 PM PT.