Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants: Final Score & Recap

The San Francisco Giants handed the Chicago White Sox a 10-3 defeat at Oracle Park on May 23, 2026, a game that unfolded as a slow build before erupting into a lopsided Giants victory. The DiamondIQ model entered with a 43 percent home win probability for San Francisco, a figure that climbed steadily before reaching 100 percent by the final out.

The decisive stretch came across the fourth and fifth innings, where San Francisco did the bulk of its damage against Chicago starter Erick Fedde and reliever Jordan Leasure. A Daniel Susac single in the bottom of the fourth off Fedde was the first major inflection point, shifting win probability by 13.0 percentage points as the Giants pushed across three runs. The fifth inning was where the game broke open entirely. Casey Schmitt connected for a home run off Fedde, the single largest win-probability swing of the contest at plus 21.1 percent, before Harrison Bader added another home run, this one off Jordan Leasure, worth plus 17.8 percent. Chicago briefly applied pressure in the top of the fifth, with Sam Antonacci reaching on a forceout and Miguel Vargas doubling off Adrian Houser to account for three White Sox runs, but the deficit proved insurmountable. San Francisco added a run in the bottom of the eighth to complete the 10-3 final.

Schmitt was the game's standout individual performer, finishing with a cumulative plus 21.9 percent WPA and plus 1.5 RE24 on the strength of his fifth-inning blast. Susac was equally impactful in building the Giants' early advantage, posting plus 14.4 percent WPA and plus 1.2 RE24, while Luis Arraez contributed plus 12.7 percent WPA to a San Francisco lineup that collected 14 hits without committing an error. On the pitching side, Matt Gage led Giants relievers with plus 2.4 percent WPA, with Bryan Hudson adding plus 1.2 percent in support of a clean team defensive performance.